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Title: Kern River & Borel Transmission Line
Creator: Bishop, G. Haven, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kern River & Borel Transmission Line - A man standing in the special Kern River 60 KV tower at the San Fernando Substation, showing an Operator's Cottage next to Substation. [spindly looking tower built by a local windmill manufacturer carries power from Kern River into Los Angeles. Built in 1906, the record setting 117-mile long, 75kV transmission line was the first in nation to be carried entirely on steel support towers. (wam)]
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: Glass Plate ; 5x7
Identifier: 02 - 00256
230628
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/11945
Subject: Electric substations
Labor housing
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Place: San Fernando (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
G. Haven Bishop (SCE)
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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