Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
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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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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Photographs of Rhyolite Substation, Temescal Rock Company Substation, Banning Substation; Bishop Creek hydroelectric Plant No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5; Reservoir No. 1 [South Lake or Lake Sabrina], Equalizing Reservoir [Intake 2] showing proposed position of Plant No. 1, Control Station, and Cottages; Substations and Transmission Lines, including Victorville, Ransburg, Tonopah, Goldfield, Alkali, Manhattan, Elsinore, El Centro, and San Bernardino; Otay Dam and Reservoir.
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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. - 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, & Blythe. Bishop Creek No. 1 Camp; Saddlebags Lake, Dam, and Camp.
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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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El Centro cityscape, Brawley City Hall, Gem Lake Reservoir, Agnew Lake, construction of Gem Lake multiple arch dam, and Rush Creek Powerhouse; Lundy Dam construction, Lundy wood-stave flowline; Jordan Powerhouse; Aurora Mining and Milling Co., Fairview Mine, Wonder Mine; Lee Vining Creek, and Tioga Lake. "A.B. West" embossed on album cover.
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