Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Kern River No. 1, including site for Democrat Dam; Dam construction and drainage tower; intake; dam spilling; Construction at Camp 4; Kern River Canyon, hospital, tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel automobiles; Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, Powerhouse construction, machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel and buckets, transformers, tailrace construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line; Tejon, Castaic and Fernando Substations, Los Angeles No. 3 Steam Plant.
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Kern River No. 1, Borel Powerhouse, Kern River No. 3 - KR 1, KR 2, & KR 3, Kings River Power Co., Kings River - Kern River PH #1 & cottages, headworks, Lucac Creek Flume, Cow Creek flume, forebay weir to spillway; Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River #1 Water Appropriation Notice, Kings River #2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice, material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River #3 - South Fork Gorge & Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation Notice; Kings River #4 - Tehacipi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.
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Borel intake [original], canals, flumes, flume crossing Kern River, cattle crossing bridge over Borel flume, construction tent camp near canal, crew concreting the canal walls, flume crossing wash, crew excavating canal path, water tunnel, Borel forebay, upper end of penstocks, operator's cottage next to penstocks at Borel, Borel Powerhouse [during construction], Borel interiors, switchboard, Kern River.
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Roy K. Wanner's personal album with shots from the Kern River #3 project - construction at Fairview Dam, flume and sandbox construction, tunnel construction, Kern 3 Siphon, flowline, forebay, penstock placement, construction of Powerhouse #3, installation of units in powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse.
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Kings River Powerhouse No. 1 and cottages, headworks, Lucas Creek Flume, Cow Creek flume, Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River No. 1 Water Appropriation Notice, Kings River No. 2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice, material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River No. 3 - South Fork Gorge and Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation Notice; Kings River No. 4 - Tehachapi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.
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Kern River No. 3 - Concrete mixing plant [at camp above Fairview dam site.]
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