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Summer scene showing the Big Creek Hotel in Big Creek, California. High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California the hotel was built in 1914 by William Thrower. In 1902, John S. Eastwood, engineer for the Pacific Light and Power Company, selected…

A 1920's winter scene high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in the town of Big Creek. The only identifiable building is the Big Creek Post Office. In 1902, John S. Eastwood, engineer for the Pacific Light and Power Company, selected Big…

Big Creek School house

A wintertime scene of Barnes's Service Station and the Big Creek Post Office and Store early 1920's rebuilt after a fire.

Men positioned by giant logs.

Picture of Big Sandy Elementary school, constructed in 1924 with the expenditure of $53,000. The Big Sandy District was formed in 1875, was united with the Auberry Union Elementary School District in 1947, which in turn united with the Sierra Unified…

Black and blue background. Redwood tree on bottom right, horse and rider next to it. Brand name top center in golden letters. Mar 19, 1943

Brand name written in yellow and orange letters on a black background. Tree is in the center; bottom half of label is blue.

U. S. Army Sgt. Bill Ishida (center) interrogates Japanese POW Army officers (far left and right) in the Phiippines in 1945. The man in the white shirt is a newspaper man. The officer on the far right surrendered his "very sharp" Samurai sword to…