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Title: [Rome Power House switchboard] (3 views)
Date Created and/or Issued: [1901]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View 1 (2012-2076). Rome switchboard, c. 1901. "No. 2" - handwritten on verso -- view 2 (2012-2077). Rome switchboard. "No. 1" - handwritten on verso -- view 3 (2012-2078). Rome Power Plant.
Built 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: 3 photographic prints ; 4 x 5 in.
Identifier: (C)001485210CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Pacific Gas and Electric Company--Photographs
Power plants--California--Nevada County
Hydroelectric power--California--Nevada County
Switchboards--California--Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Nevada County
Nevada County (Calif.)

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