This is a good time as any, in the middle of winter, to label those old print photographs that you may have. It is sad and some what tragic to come across a box of old photographs given to me, only to find that so many are not identified.

Then, of course, there is the other extreme. When I received the C.R. Caudle Collection I was quite fortunate, since so many were labeled. Maybe because he was a civil engineer, might have something to do with it. Some of his photographs he wrote in great detail on the back of photographs. Today’s featured photograph is a perfect example. Caudle wrote: ”Overflow spillway for Lake Almanor, Plumas County, Calif. One of the water storage reservoirs of the Great Western Power Company, taken Aug. 1923 by R.A. Warden, when C.R. Caudle and Warden were on their way to visit V.S. Barber at the Sunnyside Gold Placer Mine.”

Tim