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Mount Whitney Power Co.: substations and powerhouses

Description: Lindsay Substation; Delano Substation; Visalia Steam Plant; Construction of Kaweah No. 1, No. 2, and Kaweah No. 3; Wolverton; Visalia Garage; Tulare Substation and Waterworks; Mount Whitney Power Co. general office in Visalia; Tule diversion dam and Intake, Marble Fork Camp, and construction of Tule flumes, canals, forebay, and powerhouse.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1900 - 1912
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.

Substations and Powerhouses

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Lindsay Substation; Delano Substation; Visalia Steam Plant; Kaweah #1 - flume, cottages, powerhouse, switchboard; Kaweah #2 Powerhouse, Kaweah #3 - construction of flumes, tunnels, canals, diversion dam & intake, regulating reservoir/forebay, canal repairs, sandbox, steel pipeline, siphon, penstock, incline RR, Powerhouse 3 ; Wolverton; Visalia Garage; Tulare Substation & Waterworks; const. MWP Co. General Office in Visalia; Tule diversion dam & Intake, Marble Fork Camp, construction of Tule flumes, canals, forebay, and Tule Powerhouse.

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Mount Whitney Power Co. photographs of Visalia and Porterville in Tulare County, California

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Mount Whitney Power Company album including views of the Visalia office, Courthouse, Carnegie Library, High School, Spaulding home; Tulare Substation; Porterville substation, waterworks, town, agriculture, packing houses; Exeter Substation, Packing House, Hotel; Tule River; Lindsay orange orchard and pumping plant, waterworks, transmission line; Lemon Cove; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 1, Intake, flume, Dam and intake for Plant 2, Flume 1 for plant 2, canal, poor flume construction, reservoir, pipeline, penstock, Plant 2 construction, dam construction and photographs at Monarch Lake, Lady Franklin Lake, Silver Lake and Eagle Lake.

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Kaweah hydro-electric plants 1 and 2; Mount Whitney Power Co. maps and photos of hydro-electric development on the Kaweah River

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Album belonging to Robert McF. Doble, Consulting Engineer, and containing a map and photographs of hydroelectric development on the Kaweah River. Photographs include proposed site for Powerhouse No. 2, Middle Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Atwell's Mill, Upper and Lower Monarch Lakes, cut at headworks of ditch for Plant No. 2, East Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Junction of Marble and Middle Forks of Kaweah River, Eagle Lake, Lady Franklin Lake, Silver Lake. A typescript index appears at the end of the album. "Robert McF. Doble, Construction Engineer" stamped on cover.

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Album of photographs documenting the Kaweah No. 1, 2, 3, and Tule River hydroelectric plants, Mount Whitney Power Co

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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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Silver Lake; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah River; others

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Photographs of Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 3 and reservoir; Tule Powerhouse and flume; Visalia Steam Plant; Tulare Steam Plant; Substations: Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and Sausalito; Visalia garage and office; and Tulare Office and Storeroom.

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Visalia - MWP Co. Office, Courthouse, Carnegie Library, High School, Spaulding home; Tulare Substation; Porterville - Sub., waterworks, town, agriculture, packing houses; Exeter - Sub., Packing House, Hotel; Tule River; Lindsay - Orange orchard & pumping plant, waterworks, transmission line; Kaweah Hydro - Powerhouse #1, Intake, flume, Dam & intake for Plant 2, Flume 1 for plant 2, canal, photos of poor flume construction, reservoir, pipeline, penstock, Plant 2 construction, Dam construction and photos at Monarch, Lady Franklin, Silver, and Eagle Lakes

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Visalia - MWP Co. Office, Courthouse, Carnegie Library, High School, Spaulding home; Tulare Substation; Porterville - Sub., waterworks, town, agriculture, packing houses; Exeter - Sub., Packing House, Hotel; Tule River; Lindsay - Orange orchard & pumping plant, waterworks, transmission line; Kaweah Hydro - Powerhouse #1, Intake, flume, Dam & intake for Plant 2, Flume 1 for plant 2, canal, photos of poor flume construction, reservoir, pipeline, penstock, Plant 2 construction, Dam construction and photos at Monarch, Lady Franklin, Silver, and Eagle Lakes.

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