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Title: Kern River #1
Creator: Pearson, B. F., photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906-12
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: Kern River #1 - Leslie B. Hicks after his rescue. [Just before Xmas of 1906, miner Lindsey B. Hicks was trapped by the collapse of a tunnel being dug to carry water to Edison's Kern River #1 Hydro Plant. Edison workers drove a new tunnel 100 feet through the mountainside and recued him alive after 16 days of entombment. Here he stands behind newspapers announcing his rescue. (wam)]
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: 01 - 00705
229615
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/370
Subject: Newspapers
Miners
Tunnels
Hydroelectric power-plants
Place: Bakersfield (Calif.)
Kern County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Edison Electric (EEC)
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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