Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp. - [Photos possibly showing ruins from avalanche at Jordon Powerhouse], Perris workers, Cerro Gordo aerial tram, Imperial Line, Whitewater.
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Album of unidentified photographs depicting construction of transmission lines, and substations, as well as ranch activities and horses. Four loose Photographs includes remains of the Jordan Powerhouse after it was destroyed by an avalanche in 1911.
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Hydroelectric facilities, cottages, and other buildings at Bishop Creek Plant 2, Plant 3, Plant 4, Plant 5, Control Station and Plant 6; Facilities, buildings and offices at Laws, Big Pine, Independence, Lone Pine, Inyo-Kern, Randsburg, Victorville, San Bernardino, San Bernardino Steam Plant, Riverside, Perris, Corona, Elsinore, Hemet, San Jacinto, Banning, Coachella, Brawley, Imperial, El Centro, Holtville, Calexico, and Blythe. Bishop Creek No. 1 Camp; Saddlebags Lake, Dam, and Camp. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
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Maps and charts include Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada distribution system; Bishop Creek hydroelectric, Bradford [South] Lake; drainage above Bishop Creek Reservoirs; Storage Reservoir on Middle Fork, Bishop Creek; Plans for Dams on South Fork, Middle Fork, North Fork of Bishop Creek; Details for sluice gates, crib dams, intakes, Dam at Intake 2 Reservoir, South Fork Feed Line, pipelines, valves, sluice gates, powerhouse and transformer house floor plans, Plant Layouts, pipeline profiles, transmission lines and poles; Power distribution map; northern reservoirs.
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Construction of Bishop Creek Powerhouse 1 and water lines [powerhouse No. 4]. Includes several cyanotype prints.
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Civil Engineer Samuel Storrow's survey and detailed report on the hydroelectric potential of Bishop Creek watershed. Photographs of Hillside Reservoir [i.e.. South Lake], Lake Sabrina, construction of Sabrina Dam, [Intake 2] regulating dam below Sabrina, and Hillside [South Lake] Dam; Pine Tree Weir; also includes shots of Plant 1 and its flowline [the plant was destroyed in an avalanche and never rebuilt].
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