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Highgrove Powerhouse

Description: Highgrove Powerhouse - Copy of three old photos from the Highgrove [Hydroelectric] Plant. [which was destroyed by fire in March, 1915]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 8/23/1929
Call number: photCL SCE 02 - 16504
Find out more: View in the Huntington Digital Library(Opens in new tab); View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

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