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Old electric appliances. Photographs by G. Haven Bishop


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

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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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    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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