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This dramatic view shows the penstock being laid up the 80 percent grade above Powerhouse #1 during August of 1913

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Title: This dramatic view shows the penstock being laid up the 80 percent grade above Powerhouse #1 during August of 1913
Creator: Stone & Webster, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913-08
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: This dramatic view shows the penstock being laid up the 80 percent grade above Powerhouse #1 during August of 1913. This "penstock pipe" was built in Germany by the famed Krupp Works, using metallurgy similar to that needed for cannon barrels.
Type: image
Format: 475769 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier: 12 - 00042
232857
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5494
Subject: Penstocks
Construction
Construction crew
Hydroelectric power-plants
Place: Cascada (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Story of Big Creek
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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