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Title
Kern River #1
Date Created and/or Issued
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information
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Description
Kern River #1 - site for Democrat Dam, dam construction and drainage tower, intake, dam spilling, construction at Camp 4, flume, Kern River Canyon, Hospital, tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel automobiles, Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, powerhouse construction, machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel & buckets, transformers, tailrace construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line, Tejon, Castaic & Fernando Substations, L. A. #3 steam plant...
Extent
1 album
Identifier
13 - vol 063
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/56147
Subject
Hydroelectric power
Dams
Tunnels
Concrete
Construction
Place
Bakersfield (Calif.)
Kern County (Calif.)
Source
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Assorted Albums
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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