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Employee album of R. H. Cates - personal and project photos


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    Big Creek: Huntington Lake Lodge

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    Huntington Lake Lodge. Views of mountain scenery, recreation (fishing, boating, horseback riding, picnics, the lake, lodge guests, cart rides, croquet court, snow recreation, sledding, snowshoe hiking.

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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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    F.P.C. Vol. 1, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Florence Lake Dam, Florence Tunnel, & Mono-Bear Diversion

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    Edison employee family album of Big Creek project

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    Album of snapshots compiled by unidentified Edison employee with scenes of Big Creek camp and employees engaged in various recreational activities. Photographs accompanied by decorative hand drawn flourishes as well as identifications, poems, and verse. Many of the images focus on Camp 63 of Big Creek.

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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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    Employee album of T. H. Hotchkiss, Operating Department

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    Photographs of Bryce and Zion parks, June Lake, Gem Lake, Gull Lake, Steam Plant Photographs, family Photographs, Catalina, [Huntington Library, Palm Canyon, Long Beach earthquake], USS Constitution, desert scenes, Steam Plant control room, Hoover Dam (under construction and during operation), Long Beach Steam Station, assorted photographs of California Missions, ocean liner "Empress of Britain", seaplane, steam Locomotives, US Navy ships.

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