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California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp. - Scrapbook containing 8x10 glossy prints, brochures, a Program of Events from the inauguration, large posters, original letters & Western Union telegrams to Southern Sierras Power Corp. & Nevada-California Electric Corp., newspaper articles, maps, and other memorabilia. Everything in the album is focused on the construction of the Nevada-California Electric transmission line to the Hoover dam site. The contents precede the actual construction of the dam.
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Date
1955
Call number
photCL SCE 13 - vol 137
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