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Perry Hornsby's family photos; with Big Creek photos
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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.
photCL SCE
Big Creek - Dams
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Big Creek - Dams [Dam 1- intake tower (interior & exterior), seepage, sluice pipes, spilling over top and through spillways, automatic siphons; Dam 2 - watchman's house; Dam 3 & 3A; Dam 4 spilling; Dam 5 - site excavation, forms up, diversion flume, dam construction, trash rack, sluicing mud banks, PH 8 forebay construction; Dam 6 - site excavation, construction, coffer dam, diversion, framework, primary rock crusher #9, Tunnel 3 intake, Dam 6 spilling.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 025
Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos
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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos [Gravel pit, sluicing PH#2 site, Powerhouse 1 under construction, Powerhouse 2 under construction, Units 1 & 2 at PH1, PH2 Switchboard, Generator Room, Hoist #2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly, Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 011
Big Creek - rivers & streams
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Big Creek - rivers & streams, Powerhouse 2 interior, Cascada General Office, Huntington Lodge, Huntington Lake & Dam 1, Shaver Lake, PH #2, PH #8 interior & exterior, Dam 6 & Intake 3, PH #3; Vestal, Eagle Rock, Laguna Bell Substations; Mill Creek #1 exterior & interior; Kern River #3 exterior & interior, Kern River #1 interior; Long Beach Steam Plant #1; various executive portraits; and General Office at 3rd & Broadway.
photCL SCE 13 - vol 056
Big Creek - Hydroelectric project photos
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Big Creek - Hydroelectric project photos [Big Creek - commercial postcards, Powerhouse 1 & 2, exciter, gate control, generator floor, Cascada cottages, Dam #4, SJ&E train nearing Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden Sub.; Kaweah #3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator floor, Transformer Station, #8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays, forebay; Front Street Power Station (AC side, and DC side)]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 049
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction [Powerhouse #2, pouring walls, sluicing below PH#2, Camp 7, crushing plant, generator room, Construction at Dams #1, #2, #3 and #4; intake at Dam 1.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 014