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Description
View 1 (2012-2079). Rome Power Plant. Shows wheels and belts. "No. 5" - handwritten on verso -- view 2 (2012-2080). Rome Power Plant. Interior machinery -- view 3 (2012-2081). Rome Power. Interior view of machinery -- view 4 (2012-2082). Pelton wheel, Rome Power Station. Built in 1895 by Nevada County Electric Power Company on South Yuba River. Operated from 1896 (when completed) to 1910 (when abandoned). Supplied power to Nevada City and Grass Valley. Known as the "Rome" plant after Romulus Riggs Colgate, investor in Power Company. First plant in what became Pacific Gas & Electric.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
4 photographic prints ; 4 x 5 in. and 5 x 4 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001485212CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Pacific Gas and Electric Company--Photographs Power plants--California--Nevada County Hydroelectric power--California--Nevada County Machinery Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints
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