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    <abstract id="aspace_c5561046c7a62fba378dc92c2febd9fe">Copy of a handwritten memoir by Mr. C.D. Herbst concerning his career as an engineer with the West Penn Power Company, and a copy of a booklet on the history and development of electric street railways in Parkersburg, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio.</abstract>
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    <subject source="ingest">Street railways - Parkersburg.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Marietta, Ohio - Street railways.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Street Railways - Marietta, Ohio.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Parkersburg - Street railways.</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Kanawha Traction and Electric Company</corpname>
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