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Unidentified scenes of power construction and ranches

Description: Album of unidentified photographs depicting construction of transmission lines, and substations, as well as ranch activities and horses. Four loose Photographs includes remains of the Jordan Powerhouse after it was destroyed by an avalanche in 1911.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1911
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: Copyright Southern California Edison. Certain uses require permission from Southern California Edison, contact reference@huntington.org for information.

California Electric Power Corp

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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp. - Includes 4 loose photos, one is a shot of the remains of the Jordan Powerhouse after it was destroyed by an avalanche in 1911; no documentation with other shots which show construction of transmission lines, and substations, as well as photos showing ranch activities and horses.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 145

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Nevada-California Power Company - unidentified scenes [possibly ruins from avalanche at Jordon Powerhouse]

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[Photographs possibly showing ruins from avalanche at Bishop Creek Powerhouse No. 1], Perris workers, Cerro Gordo aerial tram, Imperial Line, Whitewater. All photographs undated and unidentified in album.

photCL SCE

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California Electric Power Corp.: Civil Engineer Samuel Storrow survey and evaluation report on the hydroelectric potential of the Bishop Creek watershed

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Civil Engineer Samuel Storrow's survey and detailed report on the hydroelectric potential of Bishop Creek watershed. Photographs of Hillside Reservoir [i.e.. South Lake], Lake Sabrina, construction of Sabrina Dam, [Intake 2] regulating dam below Sabrina, and Hillside [South Lake] Dam; Pine Tree Weir; also includes shots of Plant 1 and its flowline [the plant was destroyed in an avalanche and never rebuilt].

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Herminghaus Ranch (16-80)

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The Southern California Edison collection of negatives and photographs consists of approximately 80,000 images created and acquired by the company from approximately 1883-1989, with the bulk of the collection covering 1910-1960. Formats include glass and film negatives, photo cards, loose photographs, photograph albums, lantern slides, and related materials. Most of the images were produced by Edison staff and contract photographers to document Edison facilities, products, operations, activities, and employees and for the purposes of education, advertising, training, and liability. The SCE collection offers a range of subjects far broader than the company's original intent. In addition to infrastructural images of transmission lines, steam plants, substations, equipment, vehicles, and hydroelectric plants, the company captured the uses of light and electricity in its myriad capacities, including night lighting of streets, billboards, storefronts, and gas stations; electric kitchens and appliances in domestic and industrial settings such as restaurants and cafes; agricultural innovations in the dairy and poultry industries; lighting for recreational uses such as swimming pools, bathhouses, tennis courts; golf courses; office work; and accident scenes and disasters, particularly the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928.

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Herminghaus Ranch (81-97)

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Herminghaus Ranch (1-15)

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Unidentified scenes of power construction and ranches

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