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Stone & Webster #11 is working the gravel pit in the Basin in February 1913
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E, 1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith, general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant, hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Big Creek, Huntington Lake Dams - Progress of backfills on Huntington Lake Dams by Stone & Webster Co
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Big Creek, Huntington Lake Dams - Progress of backfills on Huntington Lake Dams by Stone & Webster Co. - Leakage through seam in rock below toe of auxiliary spillway concrete.
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This picture of Dam #1 taken in February 1913
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This picture of Dam #1 taken in February 1913, shows the foundation being prepared for the first pour of concrete. The elaborate wooden trestlework was needed to hoist the mixed concrete and chute it down onto the work face.
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Work crews pouring an eastern "wing wall" extension to Dam #1
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By May of 1913, each of the three dams at the Basin was virtually complete. Here, work crews are pouring an eastern "wing wall" extension to Dam #1. By this time, with much of the original "Basin Railroad" flooded by the rising waters of the reservoir, a two-foot narrow-gauge tramway was being used to deliver mixed concrete to each work face.
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Stone & Webster prints documenting the construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 - interior and exterior photos from 2/10/1913 through 2/9/1914 (164 - 8x10 prints)
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Stone & Webster prints [job order #1142] documenting the construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 - interior and exterior photos from 2/10/1913 through 2/9/1914 (164 - 8x10 prints)
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