Records, 1919-1939.

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Records, 1919-1939.

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Correspondence (1919-1928) is fragmentary but provides some information on Lehigh Power Securities Corporation's acquisition of various utility holding companies. There is also a good deal of material documenting the corporation's involvement in employee welfare work. Working papers and budgets provide financial information on subsidiary companies such as Lehigh Valley Transit Co. and Conestoga Traction Co.

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National Power and Light Company.

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Conestoga Traction Company.

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Harwood Electric Company.

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Electric Bond and Share Company

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Electric Bond and Share Co. was the largest utility holding company in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s. It controlled about 10% of the electricity generated in the country. The company had its origins in the 1890s when General Electric Co. organized the Electrical Securities Co. of Boston to assist small utilities who wanted to buy generating equipment. Electrical Securities bought the stocks and bonds that were being issued by these electric companies and u...

Lehigh Valley Transit Company

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Lehigh Power Securities Corporation.

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Lehigh Power Securities Corp. was incorporated in Delaware July 19, 1917, as a holding company. Its organizers, Electric Bond and Share Co., created it as part of their program to integrate electric and gas utility companies in eastern Pennsylvania. The corporation acquired control of the stock of Lehigh Navigation Electric Co. and through this firm the stock of The Harwood Electric Co. and its subsidiaries. It also acquired control of Lehigh Valley Transit Co., Lehigh V...

Pennsylvania Power & Light Company.

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