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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Photographs documenting four hydroelectric projects on the Kaweah and Tule Rivers, including Kaweah Plants No. 1, 2, and 3. Business card of Edison employee L.R. Quinby attached to one of the pages.
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The original Kaweah No. 1 hydroelectric plant went into operation in June 1899, providing energy to several Tulare County communities This was the beginnings of the Mount Whitney Power Company, which was acquired by Edison in the merger with Pacific Light & Power in 1917
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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. - Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations, [wood face dams at South Lake, and Lake Sabrina].
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Kaweah Hydro Plants 1 & 2 - MWP Co. maps and photos of hydroelectric development on the Kaweah River - proposed site for Powerhouse #2, Middle Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Atwell's Mill, Upper & Lower Monarch Lakes, cut at headworks of ditch for Plant #2, East Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Junction of Marble & Middle Forks of Kaweah River, Eagle Lake, Lady Franklin Lake, Silver Lake.
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Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse #2, waste gate on flume, canal; Kaweah PH #3 (exterior & interior), switchboard, Kaweah 3 dam, intake, conduit, waste gate & sand trap, construction of Kaweah 3 regulating reservoir; Tule Powerhouse (exterior & interior), Tule conduit, sand trap, flume; Visalia Steam Plant, Boiler Room; Tulare Steam Plant, switchboard; Substations - Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and Saucelito; Visalia Garage, Visalia Office - MWP Co.; Tulare Office & Storeroom.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Maps & photos of San Gorgonio Hydroelectric Plants 1 & 2, the operator's cottages, water tanks, pipeline repairs; Bishop Creek - Replacing Plant 4 standpipe, dredging intake 4, snow cat work at South Lake, snow catcher; CEP visit to Big Creek; Transmission line repairs in snow; Palm Springs District Office & other CEP facilities.
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