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Skilled workmen install the last segment of German-made penstock pipe at Big Creek #1 Hydro Plant

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Title: Skilled workmen install the last segment of German-made penstock pipe at Big Creek #1 Hydro Plant
Creator: Bishop, G. Haven, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1913
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: Skilled workmen install the last segment of German-made penstock pipe at Big Creek #1 Hydro Plant. When completed, the pipeline had the longest and steepest drop from reservoir to water wheel of any power house in the world. Pg. 100.
Type: image
Format: 467729 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; 8x10
Identifier: 11 - 00203
232667
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5708
Subject: Hydroelectric power-plants
Construction
Construction crew
Penstocks
Place: Big Creek (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Iron Men and Copper Wires
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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