Edith Irving photos / Electra Power Project 1

The link below is a collection of photographs by Edith Irvine taken in the early 20th century. It highlights the San Francisco earthquake, but also includes a number of photographs from the "Electra Power Project", at Mokelumne Hill which supposedly is one of the first hydroelectric plants in California. There are some interesting equipment close-ups.

http://www.library.byu.edu/dlib/irvine/

 

[jraef]

Excellent link, thanks for that.

I particularly like this one

It shows that turn of the century clash between the oncoming modern age and the outgoing age of animal power. Yet ironically the early modernization process itself was still largely dependent upon animal power at first!

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[itsmoked]

Looks like an outhouse!

Keith Cress
Flamin Systems, Inc.-

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[jraef]

Oops, didn't realize the caption didn't come with it. That's one of the transformers for the power house.

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[Electic]

Great pictures. The wheels on that wagon look like they are made of stone (but caption says wood).

Is that the engineer in this picture?

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/EdithIrvine&CISOPTR=370&REC=1

 

[alehman]

Kind of looks like a geek.