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[Colgate Powerhouse, Yuba County, Calif. construction photograph album].
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Title:
[Colgate Powerhouse, Yuba County, Calif. construction photograph album]Abstract:
Album of professional photographic views of construction of the original Colgate Powerhouse, built 1899 to1900 by Yuba Electric
Power Company on the Yuba River in Yuba County, Calif. Images document detailed construction of powerhouse and related structures,
as well as views of the Yuba River and the surrounding region. One image allegedly depicts John Martin, a founder of Yuba
Electric, posing with project financier Romulus Riggs Colgate.
Date:
1899 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPower-plants -- California -- Yuba County -- Design and construction -- Photographs
Power-plants -- Design and construction
Yuba River (Calif.) -- Photographs
Yuba County (Calif.) -- Photographs
California -- Yuba County
California -- Yuba River
Colgate Powerhouse (Yuba County, Calif.) -- Photographs
Yuba Electric Power Company -- Photographs
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographer(s), compiler unknown.
Most images include dates written by hand in negative. Otherwise, no descriptive information is present.
Purchase from McBride Rare Books ; 2022.
Colgate Powerhouse, Yuba County, Calif. construction photograph album, BANC PIC 2023.016, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Photograph albums.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 200 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; prints chiefly 12 x 17 cm, album 22 x 34 cm
Language:
English