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Title: Powerhouse 8
Creator: Bishop, G. Haven, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1921-07-28
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Powerhouse 8 - the big transformers being shipped to SCE's Big Creek Powerhouse #8 project from General Electric on "Strongback" RR flatcar and ready for trip down the incline, showing portion of the cable sling beneath coupler. [for the first powerplant in the world to transmit power at 220,000 volts.]
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: Nitrate ; 5x7
Identifier: 02 - 07167
235979
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/18672
Subject: Railroads
Electric transformers
Hydroelectric power
Place: Big Creek (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
G. Haven Bishop (SCE)
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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