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Title
Big Creek Powerhouse #1 arose at the junction of Pitman Creek and Big Creek
Creator
Stone & Webster, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1913-04
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information
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Description
Big Creek Powerhouse #1 arose at the junction of Pitman Creek and Big Creek, on exactly the site proposed by John Eastwood a decade earlier. By April 1913 work was well under way. This view looks west down Big Creek Canyon, with the town of Cascada (Big Creek) just out of the picture at the right.
Type
image
Format
506254 Bytes
Extent
Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier
12 - 00043
232858
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5493
Subject
Hydroelectric power-plants
Construction
Place
Big Creek (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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