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Kern River near Kernville; Pacific Light and Power Co

Description: Kern River near Kernville showing intake of Pacific Light and Power Co. for Borel Powerhouse; gauging bridge at Pacific Light & Power powerhouse site; Kern River No. 1 site including Edison Electric Company power plant 1, penstock site for Pacific Light and Power Co, site for Edison Electric penstock and diversion, location of Edison Electric tunnels, tunnel "Upper 18," and Democrat Springs gauging station.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1902
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Kern River Plant of Pacific Light and Power Company

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Borel Powerhouse on Kern River, including canals, flumes, construction camp near canal, work crew concreting canal walls and excavating canal path, interiors of powerhouse and switchboard.

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Kern River No. 1

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Kern River No. 1, including site for Democrat Dam; Dam construction and drainage tower; intake; dam spilling; Construction at Camp 4; Kern River Canyon, hospital, tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel automobiles; Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, Powerhouse construction, machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel and buckets, transformers, tailrace construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line; Tejon, Castaic and Fernando Substations, Los Angeles No. 3 Steam Plant.

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Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Fresno County, California

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San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery; man fishing; woman and child outside tent cabin at Cascada; Bridge over Big Creek near Powerhouse 1 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Water line with Kerckhoff Dome overhead; Dam No. 4 site and near completion; Cascada Falls, Pitman Creek; Sawmill at reservoir site. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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Borel, Kern River No. 3, Santa Ana River No. 1, Mill Creek, PL&P construction photos from 1903, and Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.)

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Photographs of Borel flume and canal work (mostly un-numbered), Borel headworks, Borel Powerhouse, Kern River No. 3 construction, Santa Ana River No. 1 powerhouse, Santa Ana River 1 intake, Santa Ana River 1 settling basin, Santa Ana River No. 2 powerhouse, Mill Creek No. 1 Powerhouse, Mill Creek No. 3 intake, Mill Creek cottages, Santa Ana River No. 3 flume construction, Pacific Light & Power construction Photographs from 1903, Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.), Mill Creek 2 and 3 Powerhouse, Santa Ana River flood damage.

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Big Creek: Early Big Creek and other Edison facilities

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Substations; Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2 construction and penstock construction, Huntington Lodge and Huntington Lake, heavy snowfall, break in Powerhouse 1 penstock joint, Construction of Dam 1, 2, and 4; incline railroad, railroad locomotives, Construction of Big Creek transmission line; Magunden Substation; Kern transmission line poles, line and railroad wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aqueduct and Powerhouse; Pacific Light and Power vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa Powerhouse interior; Highgrove forebay and Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse; Mentone Powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse.

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Early construction at Big Creek, Tule River and Kern River

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Album compiled by Edison employee containing professional and amateur photographs of Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at Powerhouse No. 1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at Powerhouse 1, penstock assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 2; construction of Powerhouse No. 8, constructing road to Powerhouse 3, and Tule Powerhouse.

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Kern River near Kernville; Pacific Light and Power Co

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