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Old electric appliances. Photographs by G. Haven Bishop

Description: Photographs of appliances including, Iron, Cooker, Toaster, "El Grillo" Grill, Percolator, Chaffing dish, Teapot, "El Eggo" Egg cooker, "El Comfo" [hot plate and bed warmer], Heating pad, "El Stovo" hot plate, electric ovens, electric suction device [vacuum], electric vibrators, electric hair irons. "G. Haven Bishop" stamped on front cover.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: n.d.
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Iron, Cooker, Toaster, "El Grillo" Grill, Percolator, Chaffing dish, Teapot, "El Eggo" Egg cooker, "El Comfo" hot plate

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Iron, Cooker, Toaster, "El Grillo" Grill, Percolator, Chaffing dish, Teapot, "El Eggo" Egg cooker, "El Comfo" [hot plate - bed warmer], Heating pad, "El Stovo" hot plate, electric ovens, electric suction device [vacuum], electric vibrators, electric hair irons.

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Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of representative service installations of subsidiary companies

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Photographs of Electrical Distribution as well as operations involving industry and industrial consumers, agriculture (farming, dairy, poultry, irrigation, alfalfa, cantaloupes, lettuce), mining, rural electrification, and hotels and resorts. Areas encompass Riverside, San Bernardino, Corona, Elsinore, Brawley, El Centro, and Calexico (Mexicali Light and Power); Mining customers in Tonopah, Goldfield, and Randsburg; Hotels and Resorts, including El Mirador, Desert Inn, La Quinta, Barbara Worth, Planters, Belvedere Inn, Soba Hot Springs, Loma Linda Sanitarium, Casa Del Deserito. Photographs of workers picking and packing American Beauty brand cantaloupes and lettuce. A typescript table of contents is at the beginning of the album and each photograph is introduced by a typescript description.

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Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of principal plants and properties of subsidiary companies

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Photographs of hydroelectric plants and properties with typescript table of content. Photographs include El Centro No. 1, Brawley No. 3, Calexico No. 4, Calipatria No. 7, and Holtville No. 6 Ice Plants; San Bernardino Steam Plant and warehouse; Office buildings in El Centro, Riverside, Brawley, Calexico, San Jacinto, Victorville, San Bernardino, and Palm Springs; Ice Service Stations; Abelour Ranch; Cain Ranch; Telephone and Telegraph facilities; Blythe Oil Engine Plant. Stamped on interior of album: "Library, The Southern Sierras Power Co., Riverside, California" and additional check-out stamps from 1928 - 1936.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Bishop Creek Hydroelectric Power

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Construction of Bishop Creek hydroelectric Plant 2, 3, 4 5, and 6 as well as upper Bishop Creek watershed, No. 1 [Sabrina Dam] Reservoir, Hillside Reservoir [South Lake Dam], Intake 2 Reservoir in snow; Mines in Goldfield, Nevada (Combination, Merger, and Florence Mines); Nevada-California Power Company headquarters in Goldfield, stamp mill; Belmont Mine in Tonopah; Substations at: Goldfield, Tonopah, Millers, Lone Pine, Inyokern, Randsburg, Barstow, Victorville, San Bernardino, Corona, Elsinore, Perris, Coachella, and El Centro; Yellow Aster mine, St. Charles Hotel, Johannesburg, CA., Atolia Mine, Ice plant in Barstow, cement plants.

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Old electric appliances. Photographs by G. Haven Bishop

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