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Description: Boxes 5-6 contain empty original enclosures for materials from Pacific Light & Power, Cal-Electric, and "24729-24748, Florence Lake Dam, 1942."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1883-1989
Call number: Subseries C
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.

Big Creek: Florence Lake and Dam

Visual Materials

Florence Lake dam: maintenance, including miscellaneous paint samples on arches, test slabs, backcountry Powerhouses, spill of water through Ward Tunnel from Florence Lake, flume collapsed from Ward Tunnel spill, Spillway at Florence Lake Dam cresting with logs and debris caught on drum gates, mountains above Florence Lake, and shots of different stages of construction of Florence Lake Dam. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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Big Creek: Florence Lake Dam and Dam No. 2

Visual Materials

On spine of album: Florence Lake and Dam. Construction of main river channel, "Frog Pond" section, River Gorge section, trench for buttress 52, Insley tower at Frog Pond, tunnel intake, Camp 64 Hospital and ambulance, construction on diversion dam for intake, proposed wood stave flowline from Florence to Shaver Lake, Camp 62, tunnel excavation, logging reservoir site, Camp 65 sawmill, Camp 60 warehouse. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.

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F.P.C. Vol. 1, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Florence Lake Dam, Florence Tunnel, & Mono-Bear Diversion

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Florence Reservoir, Florence Tunnel, and Mono-Bear. Views include Big Creek Canyon; Florence Lake Dam site, including diamond drilling, clearing site, crib dam; Florence Lake Dam construction, forms construction; Florence Tunnel intake, tunnel excavation; Mono Dam construction: Mono-Bear junction; Mono-Bear siphon construction.

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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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Series 7. Predecessor Companies

Manuscripts

This series contains records documenting Southern California Edison's predecessor companies. The series in divided into eighteen subseries: the Bishop Light and Power Company; the California Electric Power Company; the Edison Electric Company; the Imperial Ice and Development Company; the Kern River Company; the Mountain Power Company; the Mount Whitney Power and Electric Corporation; the Nevada-California Electric Corporation; the Nevada-California Power Company; the Nevada Power, Mining, and Milling Company; the Pacific Light and Power Company; the Redlands Gas Company; the Redlands Light and Power Company; the Rialto Light, Power, and Water Company; the San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Company; the Southern Sierras Power Company; the United Electric, Gas, and Power Company; and the Ventura County Power Company.

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Kern River near Kernville; Pacific Light and Power Co

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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.

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