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Employee album of Big Creek

Description: Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including Powerhouse 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall, Powerhouse3 generator floor, Camps 63 and 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory, Powerhouse 1 in snow, Dam 6, Powerhouse 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog team, tunnel work, and Florence Lake.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1924
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Perry Hornsby's family photos; with Big Creek photos

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Perry Hornsby's family photos; with Big Creek photos - Masonic Hall, PH 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall, PH3 generator floor, Camps 63 & 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory, PH 1 in snow, Dam 6, PH 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog team, tunnel work, & Florence Lake.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 061

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Employee album: Perry Hornsby's family photos and Big Creek

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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including views of compressor house, sled dog team, Camp 33, 35, 38, and 61, General Office, Huntington Lodge, mess hall, Stevenson Creek Falls, Shaver Sawmill, San Joaquin and Eastern Climax locomotive No. 107, hoist; construction at Dam 5, Dam 6, Intake 3, Powerhouse 3, Powerhouse 8, diver at intake, Penstock blow-out at Powerhouse 8; Kern River No. 3 construction.

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Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad

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On spine of album: San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Auberry, Cascada, Clovis, Dog Team, Radio. Album begins with group of editors on San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad en route to Big Creek in 1923; Cascada Station; Auberry: machine shop, mess hall and penstock staging area; Cascada: mail room, school house, mess hall after fire, gas tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse dormitory, tennis court, boxing match, pole treating plant, construction of tunnel dump cars and concrete gun pipes, dance party, warehouse, laundry room, cookhouse, and two-story bunkhouse; Camp 38 hospital; Clovis: cottages, water tanks, and sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn sleds; Camp 62: telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

photCL SCE

Big Creek, San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad

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Big Creek, San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad - [Editor's party on SJ&E Railway, SJ&E passenger car 501, rail yard, construction work on railroad, Cascada Station; Auberry - machine shop, mess hall, commissary, & penstock staging area; Cascada - mail room, school house, commissary, mess hall after fire, gas tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse, dormitory, tennis court, boxing match, pole treating plant, building tunnel dump cars, building concrete gun pipes, dance party, laundry room, cookhouse, & 2 story bunkhouse; Camp 38 hospital; Clovis - cottages, water tanks, & sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn sleds; Camp 62 - Telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room]

photCL SCE 13 - vol 020

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Big Creek: Hydro-electric project photo postcard album

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Album of photographic postcards of Big Creek and its infrastructure, as well as other hydroelectric projects, including Powerhouse 1 and 2, exciter, gate control, generator floor, Cascada cottages, Dam No. 4, San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad train nearing Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden Substation; Kaweah No. 3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator floor, Transformer Station, No. 8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays, forebay; Front Street Power Station.

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Employee album: Kingsley Dutton's family photos; Big Creek and Kern River

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Photograph album of Edison employee, Kingsley A. Dutton, including pictures of Borel Powerhouse and interiors; Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1; Dam 4; Cascada; incline railway and hoist; Kern River No. 1; Kern River No. 3; Tule Powerhouse; Eagle Rock Substation; and Fairview Dam. Personal snapshots include views of Glendale, Griffith Park, early motorcycles, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and a Boston terrier.

photCL SCE

Employee album of Big Creek

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