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Description
2008-0657 PHOTO: WATER: POWER PLANTS: KERN CANYON View 1 (2008-0657). "Power House Kern River Canyon". Shows several buildings grouped around an open space at bottom of rocky canon. Pipelines visible on hillside -- view 2 (2008-0658). "Tube from tunnel to turbines. Wastewater". Shows pipeline midway up hill and entrance to tunnel marked with red arrow -- view 3 (2008-0659). "Looking up Kern River Canon, May 1905". Shows Kern River at bottom of canon, pipeline running along left hillside and down to river. Footbridge crosses bottom of stream. Hydroelectric power plant on the Kern River, at the mouth of Kern Canyon. By 1902, acquired by Power, Transit and Light Company.
Type
image
Format
Photographs. Nonprojected graphic
Extent
3 photographic prints : cyanotype ; 5 x 6 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001388495CSL01-Aleph (DRA)VVW-1801
Subject
Power plants--California--Kern County Pipelines--California--Kern County Rivers--California--Kern County Tunnels--California--Kern County Kern County (Calif.)--Photographs Kern River (Calif.)--Photographs Photographic prints Cyanotypes
Place
California Kern County Kern County (Calif.) Kern River (Calif.)
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