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Scrapbook of photographs and ephemera related to inauguration of power service for Hoover Dam


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    Scrapbook related to Southern Sierras Power Company territory

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    Printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and rates communication letters related to Southern Sierras Power Company service area. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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    California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Hoover Dam line construction

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    Photographic map of Nevada-California Electric Corporation Transmission Line from Victorville to Boulder (Hoover) Dam site with profiles, tower drawings, as well as photographs of construction camps, tower installations, building tower bases, hanging insulators, stringing conductors, splicing conductor, switching towers, angle towers, angle "AP" type towers, dead end towers, and the Hoover Dam Substation.

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    Scrapbook related to Lake Elsinore and Southern Sierras Power Company territory

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    Printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and rates communication letters related to Lake Elsinore and Southern Sierras Power Company service area. Section at back of scrapbook contains clippings related to deaths caused by natural gas. Business card of P.L. Nourse, Division Superintendent, attached. 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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    Hoover Dam ceremony, aerial views, etc

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    Hoover Dam, ceremony, Lake Mead, aerials of Colorado River, Transmission Towers, Generator floor, Transformers, assembly of units.

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    Photograph albums

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    The photograph albums are focused on project surveys, construction, operations, and facilities related to various hydroelectric projects dating from approximately 1904 through 1945. Many volumes depict the Big Creek project from inception through its numerous expansions. Volumes were compiled by Southern California Edison as well as engineering firms and consultants; employees; and various predecessor companies, including Pacific Light & Power, Edison Electric Company, Southern Sierras Power Company, Mount Whitney Power Company, Nevada Power, Mining and Milling Company, and Nevada-California Electric Corporation. Original Edison volume number is noted where known. Some "albums" are compilations of loose photographs by topic. A majority of the albums were scanned and are available in the Huntington Digital Library (see Series 1).

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