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9.4. Reference Materials

Description

This subseries contains reference materials collected by Southern California Edison and includes articles, books, notebooks, pamphlets, periodicals, reports, and other materials. A significant portion of the subseries is comprised of books from the SCE Library. These items pertain to a variety of topics including the Calleguas and Central Valley projects, the Colorado River and Boulder Canyon, dams, electrical engineering, flood control, generating plants, public utilities, transmission and overhead lines, and water resources.

Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically thereafter.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1895-1982
Call number
mssSCE
Creator
Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Edison International, August 2007.
Associated people
Batchelder, Dean E. (1847-1931.)
Chavannes, Albert. (1850-1927.)
Edison, Thomas A. (1892-)
Edmunds, Elizabeth Erickson.
Huntington, Henry Edwards,
Mullendore, William Clinton,
Redinger, David H.
Associated organizations
Big Creek (Calif.)
Boulder Canyon Project (U.S.)
California Public Utilities Commission.
Central Valley Project (Calif.)
Edison Electric Company.
Edison Electric Institute.
General Electric Company.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
National Electric Light Association.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Railroad Commission of the State of California.
Shaver Lake (Calif.)
Tennessee Valley Authority.
United States Reclamation Service.
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