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Southern California Railway Co. letter book
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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric Projects (vol 131)
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Hydroelectric facilities, cottages, and other buildings at Bishop Creek Plant 2, Plant 3, Plant 4, Plant 5, Control Station and Plant 6; Facilities, buildings and offices at Laws, Big Pine, Independence, Lone Pine, Inyo-Kern, Randsburg, Victorville, San Bernardino, San Bernardino Steam Plant, Riverside, Perris, Corona, Elsinore, Hemet, San Jacinto, Banning, Coachella, Brawley, Imperial, El Centro, Holtville, Calexico, and Blythe. Bishop Creek No. 1 Camp; Saddlebags Lake, Dam, and Camp. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric Projects (vol 136)
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Constructing San Bernardino Steam Plant, transformer assembly, water tank, boiler construction, turbine assembly, switchyard; Facilities at Bakersfield, Goldfield, Tonopah, Owens River, Elsinore, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, Corona, Hemet, Perris, El Centro, and Coachella; Bishop hydroelectric facilities and construction of South Lake Dam; Nevada mining operations; Gem, Tioga, Saddlebags, Agnew, Summit, Rhinedollar, Crystal, Mono, and Lundy Lakes; Mill Creek hydroelectric construction, including Mill Creek [Lundy] Powerhouse, wood-stave flowline, penstock, Lundy Dam. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric Projects (vol 130)
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Photographs of hydroelectric facilities at Mill Creek (Lundy); Shell Ranch; Saddlebag Camp; Cain Irrigation Co.; Rhinedollar Camp; Lee Vining Creek: Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 3; Cain Ranch; Rush Creek, Silver Lake; Benton Station; Owens River Gorge; Adams Main Plant and Auxiliary; Abelour Ranch, Red Hill Ranch; Turner Ranch; South Hillside Ranch; dwellings at Lake Sabrina; Bishop Creek No. 1 buildings, and Intake 2 buildings. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
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Southern California Edison Records
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The Southern California Edison Records contain books, catalogs, correspondence, journals, ledgers, log books, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, reports, scrapbooks, and other materials documenting the history of the Southern California Edison (SCE) Company. The records cover the years 1848 to 1989 with the bulk of the material ranging from 1911 to 1965. The material is largely textual with the exception of a few non-paper items scattered throughout. The Southern California Edison Records consist of materials created, maintained, and collected by the company. Series 1, Administrative Records, includes documentation of the management of the company such as Annual Reports to the Federal Power Commission (1918-1964) and Annual Reports to Stockholders (1914-1987). Also included are correspondence, manuals, policy and procedure orders, and other documents. Series 2, Department/Division Records, contains records pertaining to the Commercial Department, Communications Division, Engineering Department, Garage Department, Shop and Test Department, and the Steam Generation Division. The collection also contains Employee Records (Series 3), detailing SCE employees' activities, benefits, and rules, as well as Financial Records (Series 4), consisting of cost reports, valuations, and other materials. Series 9, Publications, includes items published by SCE as well as items collected by SCE. Series 10, Publicity Records, contains mostly newspaper clippings, press releases, and other materials documenting the 1953 Edison Employee Strike. Project Records (Series 8), Research Files (Series 11), Topical Files (Series 12), and the Vertical File (Edison Library) (Series 13) contain a variety of materials on various subjects such as Big Creek, the Central Valley Water Project, the Colorado River, energy, Hoover Dam, hydroelectric plants, public utilities, Thomas Edison, and more. One of the largest series, Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Records, is divided into four subseries. Subseries 5.1, Generation (Power Plants) Records, contains an extensive set of log books maintained by various SCE plants/stations including Big Creek, Etiwanda, Fontana, Long Beach, Lytle Creek, Mill Creek, Ontario, and Santa Ana River. These log books contain meter readings, statistical information, and documentation of plant/station maintenance and operating activities. Materials in this subseries range in date from 1899 to 1980. While the Southern California Edison Records are comprised primarily of company records, Series 6 contains collections of personal papers donated to the company by various Edison employees, including Dean E. Batchelder, Albert Chavannes, Elizabeth Erickson Edmunds, and David Hubbard Redinger. Of particular historical note are a set of Redinger's journals ranging in date from 1904 to 1976. These journals document Redinger's life, including his time as division superintendent for SCE at Big Creek, California. In addition to materials documenting the Southern California Edison Company, the records also contains limited documentation pertaining to a number of SCE's predecessor companies, such as the California Electric Power Company, the Edison Electric Company, the Nevada-California Electric Corporation, the Pacific Light and Power Company, and the Southern Sierras Power Company. Materials for these and other predecessor companies are located in Series 7. The Southern California Edison Records are arranged alphabetically by series title, with the exception of the last series (Series 14. Oversize Materials). Folders are arranged alphabetically by title within series. Documents within folders are arranged in chronological order by date with undated materials residing at the end of each folder.
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Minneola valley in Southern California : government lands at government prices, railroad lands at very low prices. All under the Minneola canal from which a first-class water right can be obtained. This canal is the property of the Southern California improvement co
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Grant and Co. Letter to Thomas Lord Kimball
Manuscripts
The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Thomas Lord Kimball, primarily focused on his activities with the Union Pacific Railroad. The personal correspondence includes over 330 letters sent by Kimball to his wife Mary Porter Rogers Kimball between 1859 and 1893, a letter from Kimball to his daughter Frances (1870), and a letter to Mary Kimball from her brother I.S. Hodsdon (correspondence between Hodsdon and Thomas Kimball is included in the business correspondence). The personal papers also include diaries kept by Kimball between 1860 and 1899, diaries kept by Mary Kimball between 1890 and 1898, and a biographical sketch of Kimball. The railroad papers include business correspondence from a variety of correspondents including Frederick L. Ames, Sidney Dillon, I.S. Hodsdon, W.H. Holmes, Jay Gould, and E.P. Vining, as well as a few pieces of outgoing correspondence by Kimball. The financial and operation papers include Kimball's Union Pacific pocket notebooks dated 1891-1899, a small group of Jay Gould manuscripts (1877-1880), correspondence on the W.C. Thompson scandal (1872-1873), a letter appointing Kimball as travelling agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. (1860), correspondence on the sale of a Unitarian Church in Omaha (1877-1880), production summaries for the Union Depot in Omaha (1879-1896), and miscellaneous railroad agreements, circulars, passes, receipts, promissory notes, financial statements, and stocks and bonds. The political papers consist of incoming correspondence, an agreement for Charles H. Brown to back the Union Pacific in pending legislation before Congress (1877), an agreement between Kimball and the National Union Publishing Co. (1877), a congressional voting record (1878), and a payroll. The mining papers include items related to the Newcastle Mining & Improvement Co. in Wyoming (1891-1894) and the Ella Mine in Idaho (1879-1880), as well as an analysis of coal on the Union Pacific Railroad line and a report on the coal business in Wyoming (1888). Also included is a box of newspaper clippings regarding Kimball's railroad activities from 1888-1889 (approx. 470 items).
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