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Photo taken around 1918 at Huntington Lake area, Fresno County, California, shows a train travelling downhill. Two people are sitting on the edge of a cliff as the train passes by.

Picture of Huntington Lake Dam, which was constructed in 1912 by Pacific Light & Power Company. Dam was named after the company president, Henry E. Huntington.

Winter conditions at possibly a construction camp of the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project begun in 1910 in the remote canyons of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. By 1920 Big Creek was a construction town of 5,200 workers spread over thirty-two…

Photo features the Shaver Lake Dam and its surroundings, including telegraph poles, trees, and houses on the other side of the lake.

Powerhouse No. 1 is located at an elevation of 4,819 feet at the town of Big Creek, California, and was the first on the Big Creek Project to be placed into commercial operation. Each of these generators is powered by individual double overhung…

Photograph of a log cabin used as a general store in the Camp Sierra site in high Sierra.

Photograph of fruits exhibited at a booth provided by the Chamber of Commerce, Fresno, California, in promoting farm produce from the area.

Photo taken around 1920 at Shaver Lake area, Fresno County, California, shows cut logs on mountainside.

Photo taken around 1910 at Shaver Lake area, Fresno County, California, shows flatcars on railroad track loaded with logs. Three men are standing on a pile of logs watching the loading.