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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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Big Creek Dog Teams - Head shots for 6 of Jerry Dwyer's sled dogs. [only one is numbered]
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Big Creek Initial Development
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Brochure "Big Creek Initial Development" (1914) - Pacific Light & Power Corporation - Booklet (8x10) with colorized, panoramic photos, maps, text and illustrations describing the proposed development of hydroelectric power from Big Creek and the San Joaquin River. The initial project includes four dams, two tunnels, two powerhouses, two 240 mile transmission lines, one substation and a 56 mile railroad to the project. A letter written in 1982 by Mrs. Bernell Smith who lived on the project as a child is included with this brochure. In the letter she talks about the primitive housing and how much fun she had living there
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Big Creek - Scenic photos taken by C. Laval, Fresno
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Big Creek - Scenic photos taken by C. Laval, Fresno [Beauty and scenic shots from Big Creek - Kerckhoff Dome in snow, photo survey at Big Creek, surveyor's log cabin, interior shots of surveyors sitting around fireplace, men and women in the snow, people on toboggans, horse-drawn sleds, snowshoes, & cross-country skis, snow packed trees, Huntington Lodge buried in snow, PH 1 in snow]
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Big Creek facilities and operations, photographs by Norman B. Taylor
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Photographs documenting Big Creek facilities and operations around 1920 and 1921. Typescript index with identifying information at beginning of album.
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Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 2)
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Big Creek - Powerhouse #8 (part 2) [Powerhouse #8 - Diversion, excavation for powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of PH #8 (transformers, control room, turbine-generator assembly, station power, Johnson Valve, turbine runner, crane assembly, scroll case assembly, draft tube); Penstock rupture - ripped Penstock, flattened pipe, damage to powerhouse and other facilities, reshaping pipe, adding reinforcing bands to high stress sections of penstock; Camp 33, operator dormitory, substation, incline construction.]
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