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


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    Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction photos

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    Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse No. 2 construction, including pouring walls and sluicing below Powerhouse No. 2; Camp 7; crushing plant; generator room; Construction at Dams No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4; Intake at Dam 1. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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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.

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    Long Beach Steam Station construction, Big Creek, Mill Creek, Santa Ana River, Big Bear Lake

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    Long Beach Steam Station No. 1 construction, interior of generator floor; man with divining rods; Kern River No. 3, including headquarters camp, plant site, river, Fairview Dam with fish ladder; Big Creek, including Huntington Lake, Huntington Lake Lodge, Dam 4, cottages, Powerhouse No. 8, road construction to Powerhouse No. 3; Santa Barbara facilities, including Substations, car barn, steam plants; Mill Creek No. 1, Santa Ana River No. 2 flowline, Santa Ana River No. 1 intake and siphon; Union Power Co. hydroelectric projects, such as multiple arch dam at Big Bear lake, tunnels and adits.

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    Big Creek, Mill Creek, Kern River, etc

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    Big Creek rivers and streams; Powerhouse 2 interior; Cascada general office; Huntington Lake Lodge, Huntington Lake and Dam 1, Shaver Lake, Powerhouse No. 2, Powerhouse No. 8 interior and exterior, Dam 6 and Intake 3, Powerhouse No. 3; Vestal, Eagle Rock Substation, Laguna Bell Substation; Mill Creek No. 1 exterior and interior; Kern River No. 3 exterior and interior, Kern River No. 1 interior; Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1; Camp on Eagle-Bell Line near San Gabriel; Edison Executive portraits; and Edison General Office at 3rd and Broadway, Los Angeles.

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    Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction photos

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    Early construction photographs of Big Creek. Includes views of gravel pit, sluicing Powerhouse No. 2 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Powerhouse 2 under construction; Units 1 and 2 at Powerhouse 1; Powerhouse 2 switchboard, generator, Hoist No. 2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator assembly; Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.

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    Big Creek: Dams

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    Photographs of Dams 1, 2, 3, 3A, 5 and 6 including Dam 1 intake tower (interior and exterior), seepage, sluice pipes, spilling over top and through spillways, automatic siphons; Dam 2 - watchman's house; Dam 3 and 3A; Dam 4 spilling; Dam 5 - site excavation, forms up, diversion flume, dam construction, trash rack, sluicing mud banks, Powerhouse 8 forebay construction; Dam 6 - site excavation, construction, coffer dam, diversion, framework, primary rock crusher No. 9, Tunnel 3 intake, Dam 6 spilling.

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