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Silver Lake; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah River; others

Description: Photographs of Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 3 and reservoir; Tule Powerhouse and flume; Visalia Steam Plant; Tulare Steam Plant; Substations: Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and Sausalito; Visalia garage and office; and Tulare Office and Storeroom.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1899 - 1915
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.

Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse #2, waste gate on flume, canal; Kaweah PH #3 (exterior & interior), switchboard, Kaweah 3 dam, intake, conduit, waste gate & sand trap, construction of Kaweah 3 regulating reservoir; Tule Powerhouse (exterior & interior), Tule conduit, sand trap, flume; Visalia Steam Plant, Boiler Room; Tulare Steam Plant, switchboard; Substations - Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and Saucelito; Visalia Garage, Visalia Office - MWP Co.; Tulare Office & Storeroom

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Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse #2, waste gate on flume, canal; Kaweah PH #3 (exterior & interior), switchboard, Kaweah 3 dam, intake, conduit, waste gate & sand trap, construction of Kaweah 3 regulating reservoir; Tule Powerhouse (exterior & interior), Tule conduit, sand trap, flume; Visalia Steam Plant, Boiler Room; Tulare Steam Plant, switchboard; Substations - Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay, Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and Saucelito; Visalia Garage, Visalia Office - MWP Co.; Tulare Office & Storeroom.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 113

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Mount Whitney Power Co.: substations and powerhouses

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Lindsay Substation; Delano Substation; Visalia Steam Plant; Construction of Kaweah No. 1, No. 2, and Kaweah No. 3; Wolverton; Visalia Garage; Tulare Substation and Waterworks; Mount Whitney Power Co. general office in Visalia; Tule diversion dam and Intake, Marble Fork Camp, and construction of Tule flumes, canals, forebay, and powerhouse.

photCL SCE

Substations and Powerhouses

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Lindsay Substation; Delano Substation; Visalia Steam Plant; Kaweah #1 - flume, cottages, powerhouse, switchboard; Kaweah #2 Powerhouse, Kaweah #3 - construction of flumes, tunnels, canals, diversion dam & intake, regulating reservoir/forebay, canal repairs, sandbox, steel pipeline, siphon, penstock, incline RR, Powerhouse 3 ; Wolverton; Visalia Garage; Tulare Substation & Waterworks; const. MWP Co. General Office in Visalia; Tule diversion dam & Intake, Marble Fork Camp, construction of Tule flumes, canals, forebay, and Tule Powerhouse.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 114

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Kaweah hydro-electric plants 1 and 2; Mount Whitney Power Co. maps and photos of hydro-electric development on the Kaweah River

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Album belonging to Robert McF. Doble, Consulting Engineer, and containing a map and photographs of hydroelectric development on the Kaweah River. Photographs include proposed site for Powerhouse No. 2, Middle Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Atwell's Mill, Upper and Lower Monarch Lakes, cut at headworks of ditch for Plant No. 2, East Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Junction of Marble and Middle Forks of Kaweah River, Eagle Lake, Lady Franklin Lake, Silver Lake. A typescript index appears at the end of the album. "Robert McF. Doble, Construction Engineer" stamped on cover.

photCL SCE

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Mount Whitney Power Co. photographs of Visalia and Porterville in Tulare County, California

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Mount Whitney Power Company album including views of the Visalia office, Courthouse, Carnegie Library, High School, Spaulding home; Tulare Substation; Porterville substation, waterworks, town, agriculture, packing houses; Exeter Substation, Packing House, Hotel; Tule River; Lindsay orange orchard and pumping plant, waterworks, transmission line; Lemon Cove; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 1, Intake, flume, Dam and intake for Plant 2, Flume 1 for plant 2, canal, poor flume construction, reservoir, pipeline, penstock, Plant 2 construction, dam construction and photographs at Monarch Lake, Lady Franklin Lake, Silver Lake and Eagle Lake.

photCL SCE

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Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 2 and 2a (part 2)

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Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part Two. Views of auto transformers, substation, new 6600 V line, new bridge for powerhouse extension, Unit No. 4 with direct connected exciter, constructing new Unit No. 4, 150kV - 220kV Bushings, switchboard, installation of new Unit No. 4 penstock, concrete plant, incline batch cars, stand pipes, Unit No. 3 foundation, Unit No. 3 penstock install, valve house modification, rock crushing plant, Johnson Valve, assembly of new Unit No. 3, auto circuit breakers, 150kV Oil Switch, new hoist, autotransformers, and 11kV equipment, new Bus Bar installation, Governor No. 4; Camp No. 7 - telephone exchange, cottage, machine shop, warehouse, mess hall construction, sawmill; Camp No. 5 - forebay construction, batch plant, steam shovel excavating.

photCL SCE

Silver Lake; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah River; others

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