Grayson Power Plant Collection, 1909-2011

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Summary

Creators:
Abstract:
Extent:
11 Boxes
Language:
Preferred citation:

Grayson Power Plant Collection. Glendale Library, Arts and Culture, Glendale Central Library History Room

Background

Scope and content:

The Grayson Power Plant Collection documents various parts of said entity’s history. Employee records, public events, tours of the Grayson power plant. It tracks Glendale’s growing need for power from a smaller agricultural area into a medium sized city during the 1940s and 1950s industrial boom. This included investments in the abandoned Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant in the late 1970s, the use of sodium lights, and the public’s reaction to environmental impacts of how the city gets its power. The combination of newspaper clippings with corresponding internal documents offers multiple views on the same events.

Acquisition information:
Larry Moorehouse, former superintendent of the Grayson Power Plant, donated these materials shortly before his retirement in 2008. Materials were stored in a library storage room until they were relocated to the History Room. The origin of the 2 folders of post-2008 materials is unknown.

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research use.

Terms of access:

Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to Glendale Central Library. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Preferred citation:

Grayson Power Plant Collection. Glendale Library, Arts and Culture, Glendale Central Library History Room

Location of this collection:
222 E. Harvard Street
Glendale, CA 91205, US