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Title: San Joaquin River system power plant
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Power plants of Southern California Edison's Big Creek-San Joaquin River system, photo dated July 14, 1928. The Power House on the right generates 88,000 horsepower and is one of the original plants built here. The smaller and more modern Power House on the left generates 120,000 horsepower. The newer plant has a head of water pressure equivalent to a height of over 2,400 feet, the highest for a plant of its size anywhere in the world. The five plants in the system generate a total of 460,000 horsepower.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009479
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Water and Power-Electric.; S-002-181.1 4x5
CARL0000011332
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/83654
Subject: Southern California Edison Company
Electric utilities--California, Southern
Hydroelectric power plants--California

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