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Title: Powerhouse at Big-Creek-San Joaquin River
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: An overview of Powerhouse No.1 at Southern California Edison Company's Big Creek-San Joaquin River hydroelectric development. Surrounding it are the rugged mountains of the High Sierra. This powerhouse has a generating capacity of 81,000-kilowatts, and its penstocks extending up the mountain result in a static head, or water drop, of 2,131 feet.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009593
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Electric.
CARL0000011363
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83682
Subject: Electric utilities--California, Southern

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