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San Bernardino Substation construction photographs and report

Description: Photograph report on the construction of the San Bernardino Substation and Operating building by Southern Sierras Power Company in 1928. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1928
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.

San Bernardino Steam Plant album

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Photograph of San Bernardino Steam Plant, including excavation for machinery, plant and boiler construction, turbine installations and assembly, and transmission lines. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Company facilities

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Unidentified snapshots depicting facilities and buildings in territory operated by Southern Sierras Power Company, including views of a pole yard, field crews constructing a wood pole transmission line in the desert, Southern Sierras Power Company portable office trailers being moved into construction camps. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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Owens Valley and Sierra Nevada facilities

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Snapshots of facilities and buildings in Tonopah, Rhyolite, Bishop, Big Pine, Lone Pine, Randsberg, Southern Sierras Power Co., Perris, San Jacinto, Corona, Goldfield, Elsinore, San Bernardino Steam Plant. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of principal plants and properties of subsidiary companies

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Photographs of hydroelectric plants and properties with typescript table of content. Photographs include El Centro No. 1, Brawley No. 3, Calexico No. 4, Calipatria No. 7, and Holtville No. 6 Ice Plants; San Bernardino Steam Plant and warehouse; Office buildings in El Centro, Riverside, Brawley, Calexico, San Jacinto, Victorville, San Bernardino, and Palm Springs; Ice Service Stations; Abelour Ranch; Cain Ranch; Telephone and Telegraph facilities; Blythe Oil Engine Plant. Stamped on interior of album: "Library, The Southern Sierras Power Co., Riverside, California" and additional check-out stamps from 1928 - 1936.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric Projects (vol 136)

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Constructing San Bernardino Steam Plant, transformer assembly, water tank, boiler construction, turbine assembly, switchyard; Facilities at Bakersfield, Goldfield, Tonopah, Owens River, Elsinore, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, Corona, Hemet, Perris, El Centro, and Coachella; Bishop hydroelectric facilities and construction of South Lake Dam; Nevada mining operations; Gem, Tioga, Saddlebags, Agnew, Summit, Rhinedollar, Crystal, Mono, and Lundy Lakes; Mill Creek hydroelectric construction, including Mill Creek [Lundy] Powerhouse, wood-stave flowline, penstock, Lundy Dam. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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Cloud-seeding operations by Southern Sierras Power Co

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Photograph report on cloud-seeding operations undertaken by Southern Sierras Power Company in 1948 to increase water storage for eastern Sierras' hydroelectric projects. Album includes U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau, Research Paper No. 36 on Cloud Seeding Operations in the Bishop Creek, California Watershed.

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San Bernardino Substation construction photographs and report

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