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Title
[Southern California Edison Company powerhouse no. 1]
Creator
White, Manley Freeman, 1882-1953
Date Created and/or Issued
1915
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted.
Negatives not available for public viewing.
Description
2018-3207.
Shows power plant in background; man and child in foreground.
Negative no.: 29888.
Restricted.
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Manley Freeman White was born March 25, 1882 in York County, Nebraska to Joseph Freeman White and Hattie Monroe (both from Canada). The family arrived in Fresno between 1885 and 1900. Between 1900 and 1920 resided in Fresno, in the 1920 census listed Manley as being in Merced Falls, in 1930 census listed as being in Hilt, Siskiyou County; by 1940 he is in Klamath Oregon. Worked as millhand in lumber industry. While in Fresno, worked seasonally at Shaver Lake for the Fresno Flume and Irrigation Company (owned by C.B. Swift and Charles B. Shaver). In addition to working in the mill, took photographs in his spare time.
Part of the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project, Powerhouse No. 1 was built between 1912 and 1913 by Henry E. Huntington's Pacific Light and Power Company.
Steve Harrison.
Type
image
Format
Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photograph : negative ; 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.
Identifier
(C)001640170CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Pacific Light and Power Corporation (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Photographs
Southern California Edison Company--Photographs
Power plants--California--Fresno County
Hydroelectric power--California--Fresno County
Fresno County (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Film negatives
Place
California
Fresno County
Fresno County (Calif.)

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