Southern California Edison Collection of Negatives and Photographs: Finding Aid
photCL SCE
Suzanne Oatey and Jennifer A. Watts
The Huntington Library
September 2019
Photo Archives
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library. Photo Archives
Title: Southern California Edison collection of negatives and photographs
Creator:
Southern California Edison
Company
Identifier/Call Number: photCL SCE
Physical Description:
843 Linear Feet
(822 boxes)
Physical Description:
approximately 80,000 Items
Date (inclusive): approximately 1883-1989
Date (bulk): 1910-1960
Abstract: The Southern California Edison
collection of negatives and photographs consists of roughly 80,000 images created and
acquired by the company from approximately 1883-1980s, with the bulk of the collection
covering 1910-1960. Formats include glass and film negatives, photo cards, loose
photographs, photograph albums, lantern slides, and related materials. Most of the images
were produced by Edison staff and contract photographers to document Edison facilities,
products, operations, activities, and staff and for the purposes of education, advertising,
training, and liability.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in 10 series according to format:
- Series 1. Digital images (scans of items in Series 2-6)
- Series 2. Photo cards
- Series 3. Photograph albums
- Series 4. Loose photographs
- Series 5. Glass negatives
- Series 6. Film negatives
- Series 7. Lantern slides
- Series 8. Photo log books, photo binders, and notes
- Series 9. Microfilm, photo releases, and enclosures
- Series 10. Unprocessed materials
Series 1, 4, 5, and 6 are arranged in the following subseries that were assigned by
SCE:
- Subseries 1. Edison Electric Company, 1883-1912
- Subseries 2. Southern California Edison, 1908-1960
- Subseries 3. Pacific Light and Power, 1902-1917
- Subseries 4. Mt. Whitney Power Company, 1899-1920
- Subseries 5. Doug White, photographer, 1938-1960s
- Subseries 6. Joe Fadler, photographer, 1950s-1970s
- Subseries 7. California Electric Corporation [Cal-Electric], 1941-1964
- Subseries 8. Art Adams, photographer, 1960s-1980s
- Subseries 9. Edison News, 1950s-1980s
- Subseries 10. Miscellaneous
- Subseries 11. Images for book: "Iron Men and Copper Wires"
- Subseries 12. Images for book: "The Story of Big Creek"
- Subseries 13. Photo albums, 1904-1945
Note: Subseries 11 and 12 are primarily copy negatives for images published in two
books related to the history of Southern California Edison: William A. Myers,
Iron
Men and Copper Wires
(Glendale: Trans-Angle Books, 1983); and David H. Redinger,
The Story of Big Creek (Los Angeles: Angelus Press, 1949). The majority of
these images are elsewhere in the collection in their original format.
Scope and Contents
The Southern California Edison collection of negatives and photographs consists of roughly
80,000 images created and acquired by the company from approximately 1883 – 1980s, with the
bulk of the collection covering 1910 - 1960. Formats include glass and film negatives, photo
cards, loose photographs, photograph albums, lantern slides, and related materials. Most of
the images were produced by Edison staff and contract photographers to document Edison
facilities, products, operations, activities, and employees and for the purposes of
education, advertising, training, and liability.
The SCE collection offers a range of subjects far broader than the company's original
intent. In addition to infrastructural images of transmission lines, steam plants,
substations, equipment, vehicles, and hydroelectric plants, the company captured the uses of
light and electricity in its myriad capacities, including night lighting of streets,
billboards, storefronts, and gas stations; electric kitchens and appliances in domestic and
industrial settings such as restaurants and cafes; agricultural innovations in the dairy and
poultry industries; lighting for recreational uses such as swimming pools, bathhouses,
tennis courts and golf courses; office work and lighting; and accident scenes and disasters,
particularly the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928.
Edison superintendent Benjamin F. Pearson began visually documenting aspects of the company
in 1896. Pearson, an avid amateur photographer, took pictures of Edison Electric Company
(EEC) facilities until 1904 when G. Haven Bishop (1879–1972) was hired as the company's
first full-time staff photographer. Using an 8 x 10- inch view camera, Bishop recorded
approximately 30,000 scenes during an Edison career that spanned more than three decades, or
until 1939. Bishop's work is found in Series 1 through 7, and comprises most of subseries
2.
Doug White became staff photographer around 1940 during the critical period of World War II
and postwar suburbanization. The archive contains approximately 5,000 negatives by White.
His photographs are supplemented by those of Robert K. Noble (1895-1957), an Edison employee
and skilled amateur photographer who functioned as a semi-official company photographer upon
request. White's photographs are primarily found in subseries 5.
Beginning in 1952, Edison hired outside vendors to produce most of its photography. In
1978, SCE acquired the files of two of its most widely used photographers: Joe Fadler
(1924-2013) and Art Adams. Fadler began shooting for Edison in 1951, mostly for Public
Information, Advertising, Commercial, Operating, and the Engineering and Community Relations
divisions. The archive contains approximately 24,856 images between 1951 and 1974 by Fadler
in subseries 6. Art Adams worked for Edison beginning in 1959 and shot much of the material
that appeared in Edison News as well as recording other special events and meetings. The
archive contains approximately 4,000 negatives in subseries 8 by Adams, from 1959 through
1978.
Together Fadler and Adams covered the construction of all three San Onofre Nuclear Plants
(SONGS); the Sylmar earthquake of 1971; Mandalay Water Desalinization Plant; environmental
treatment of Edison facilities; street lighting developments; the first Electro-Static
Precipitator at El Segundo; management meetings and special events; construction of Mammoth
Pool; and the operation of coal plants at Four Corners and Mojave.
Biographical / Historical
Southern California Edison (SCE) is the largest electric utility in California, serving
more than 14 million people in 15 counties of central, coastal and southern California. The
company traces its origins to several regional light and power companies, including Holt and
Knupp in Visalia, California, Santa Barbara Electric Light Company, and Riverside Water
Company. West Side Lighting Company and Los Angeles Edison Electric Company merged in 1897
to form Edison Electric Company (EEC) of Los Angeles, with John Barnes Miller serving as
general manager. Miller, called "The Great Amalgamator," bought 40 power companies over the
next five years. In 1909, Miller renamed the expanded entity, Southern California
Edison.
In 1911, the Pacific Light and Power Company (PL&P) – then owned principally by Henry
E. Huntington –began construction of the Big Creek hydroelectric project in the High
Sierras. The company further expanded the operation in 1913, making Big Creek the largest
hydroelectric project in the world. PL&P conveyed all rights and properties to Southern
California Edison in 1917, thus uniting the two largest utilities in Southern
California.
Big Creek construction occurred over three distinct phases, which is documented in the
collection in depth. Phase 1 (1911-1914): Building Powerhouses Nos. 1 and 2 and Huntington
Lake; Phase 2 (1917-1929) Expansion of Big Creek, including Huntington Lake storage and
additional generating units to Powerhouse Nos. 1 and 2; construction of Florence Lake,
Shaver Lake, Mono-Bear Diversions and Siphon, Powerhouse No. 2A, Powerhouse No. 8, and
Powerhouse No. 3; Phase 3 (1948-1960), Construction of Redinger Lake, Lake Thomas A. Edison,
Mammoth Pool Reservoir, Powerhouse No. 4, Mammoth Pool Powerhouse, Portal Powerhouse, and
several small diversions.
Other historic milestones in the collection include: the 1902 survey of the Colorado River;
construction and 1924 opening of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 2, the first modern steam plant
on the West Coast; passage of The Boulder Canyon Act of 1928, designating SCE's operation of
some Hoover Dam generators; completion in 1930 of SCE's Art Deco headquarters at Fifth and
Grand in Los Angeles; construction of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) in
1963, with units 2 and 3 added in 1972; acquisition of California Electric Company, or
Cal-Electric, in 1964; and the opening of Solar One in 1982, the nation's first large-scale
solar generation site.
Companies acquired by Southern California Edison and represented in the collection are
Pacific Light & Power Company; Mount Whitney Power Company; the Nevada-Electric
Corporation (which operated the Nevada-California Power Company, the Southern Sierras Power
Company, the Hoton Power Company, the Imperial Ice and Development Company, the Cain
Irrigation Company, and the Hillside Water Company); and the California-Electric Power
Corporation (also known as Cal-Electric).
Related Materials in the Huntington Library
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Edison International, August 2005.
Additional Resources
William Deverell and Greg Hise, eds.
Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison
and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940-1990
(San Marino: Huntington-USC Institute on
California and the West, 2016) Call no. F869.L857 F67 2016.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Southern California Edison collection of negatives and
photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Existence and Location of Copies
Processing Information
In 2005, Edison International donated the Southern California Edison collection of
negatives and photographs (photCL SCE), business records (mssSouthern California Edison
records), and motion picture film (mssSCE MP) to The Huntington Library. As part of the
agreement, Edison required digital images of all photographs for its internal use. The
Huntington undertook a three-year rehousing and digitization project from 2006-2009,
scanning approximately 70,000 images from Series 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, which now make up Series
1 (Digital images) and are available in the Huntington Digital Library. Ross Landry, an
Edison employee, arranged and described the digitized images using Edison log books (see
Series 8) and internal files. Edison received copies of all scans at the project's
completion in 2009. In 2019, Jennifer Watts and Suzanne Oatey created this finding aid.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Civil engineering
Dams
Department stores
Electric industry workers
Electric power production
Electric signs
Electric substations
Electrical engineering
Electricity
Hydroelectric power plants
Municipal lighting
Nuclear energy
Nuclear power plants--California
Power-plants
Public utilities -- California
Restaurants
Street lighting
Water-supply
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Photographs
Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Photographs
Hoover Dam (Ariz.. and Nev.) -- Photographs
California, Southern -- Photographs
Nevada -- Photographs
Arizona -- Photographs
Big Creek (Calif.) -- Photographs
Long Beach (Calif.) -- Photographs
Photographs
Photograph albums
Glass plate negatives
Negatives (photographs)
Lantern slides
Microfilms
Southern California Edison
Company
Pacific Gas and Electric
Company
Digital images Series 1
Physical Description: approximately
70,000 Items (Huntington Digital
Library)
Scope and Contents
The 70,000 digital images that comprise this series were made from negatives,
photographs, and some photograph albums in Series 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 of this collection.
The images depict SCE (and its predecessor companies) operations, facilities,
transmission and distribution systems, advertising, and other activities from
approximately 1883-1980. The items were digitized as part of a three-year digitization
project, 2006-2009, and are available to view in the Huntington Digital Library:
Southern California Edison negative and photograph
collection
Photo cards Series 2
Physical Description: 3,500
Items (359 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Southern California Edison produced photo cards arranged by category for company use.
Each photo card – consisting of a gelatin silver print or prints affixed to a board –
has a negative number printed in the top right-hand corner. All images in this series –
either as a negative or a photo card - were digitized and are available in the
Huntington Digital Library.
The photo cards depict major hydroelectric projects, such as Big Creek, Kaweah, Kern
River, Lytle Creek, San Antonio Canyon, the Santa Ana River, and the Colorado River;
Steam Plants; the transmission system, including substations and transmission lines; the
distribution system, including Edison facilities such as local offices and the Alhambra
facility; and photo cards arranged by departmental filing codes as indicated below.
Arrangement
Edison arranged the cards in the following categories and original order was
retained:
Hydroelectric Projects - Boxes 1 – 140
Steam Plants - Boxes 141 - 188
Substations - Boxes 189 - 226
Transmission Lines - Boxes 226 - 245
Distribution System - Boxes 245 - 250
Edison Facilities - Boxes 251 - 257
Edison subjects and filing codes:
A1 – Accidents and Injuries - Boxes 257 - 272
A2 – Air Conditioning - Boxes 272 - 274
A3 – Appliances - Boxes 274 - 279
B1 – Buildings - Boxes 279 - 286
C1 – Charts and Duplicated Documents - Boxes 286 - 302
D1 – Dairy - Boxes 302 - 303
D2 – Displays - Boxes 303 - 306
E1 – Equipment - Boxes 306 - 309
H1 – Heavy Duty/Industrial - Boxes 309 - 314
H2 – Homes - Boxes 314 – 319
H3 – Hospitals - Box 319
I1 – Inventions/Developments - Boxes 319 - 320
L1 – Lighting - Boxes 320 - 329
N1 – Nurseries and Soil Heating - Box 329
O1 – Oil Wells, Equipment and Scenes - Boxes 330 - 331
P1 – Portraits - Boxes 331 - 341
P2 - Poultry - Boxes 341 - 343
P4 – Pumping Plants - Boxes 343 - 345
S1 – Scenery - Box 346
T1 – Termites - Box 346
T2 – Testing - Boxes 346 - 350
T3 – Autos, Trucks, Railcars - Boxes 350 - 353
Miscellaneous (Edison Advertising Program, Edison Scrap Drives, General, Non-Edison
Property, Power Consumers, Southern California Views, Unidentified Images) - Boxes 353 –
358
Overflow from boxes 304, 308, and 336 - Box 359
Box 1, Ser. 2
Bear Creek Project (527-565)
Box 1, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (1-32)
Box 2, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (33-108)
Box 3, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (109-200)
Box 4, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (201-270)
Box 5, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (271-337)
Box 6, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (338-395)
Box 7, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (396-455)
Box 8, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (456-515)
Box 9, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Miscellaneous (516-555)
Box 10, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (1-70)
Box 11, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (71-140)
Box 12, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (141-210)
Box 13, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (211-275)
Box 14, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (276-350)
Box 15, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (351-405)
Box 16, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.1 (406-455)
Box 17, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (1-70)
Box 18, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (71-135)
Box 19, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (136-200)
Box 20, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (201-276)
Box 21, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (277-332)
Box 22, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (333-380)
Box 23, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (381-428)
Box 24, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.2 and 2A (429-442)
Box 24, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (1-50)
Box 25, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (52-120)
Box 26, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (121-190)
Box 27, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (191-260)
Box 28, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (261-330)
Box 29, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (331-400)
Box 30, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.8 (401-565)
Box 30, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (1-50)
Box 31, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (51-120)
Box 32, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (121-180)
Box 33, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (181-250)
Box 34, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (251-320)
Box 35, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (321-390)
Box 36, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (391-460)
Box 37, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (461-530)
Box 38, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (531-590)
Box 39, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (591-658)
Box 40, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.3 (679-745)
Box 41, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Portal Powerhouse (1-60)
Box 42, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Portal Powerhouse (61-120)
Box 43, Ser. 2
Big Creek, Portal Powerhouse (121-171)
Box 44, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (1-60)
Box 45, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (61-120)
Box 46, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (121-180)
Box 47, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (181-280)
Box 48, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (281-340)
Box 49, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (341-400)
Box 50, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (401-455)
Box 51, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (456-539)
Box 52, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (540-615)
Box 53, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (616-675)
Box 54, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (676-730)
Box 55, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (731-790)
Box 56, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (791-850)
Box 57, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (851-910)
Box 58, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (911-970)
Box 59, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (971-1030)
Box 60, Ser. 2
Big Creek Powerhouse No.4 (1031-1057)
Box 60, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (1-29)
Box 61, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (30-90)
Box 62, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (91-150)
Box 63, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (151-210)
Box 64, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (211-269)
Box 65, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (271-330)
Box 66, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (331-390)
Box 67, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (391-450)
Box 68, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Dams (451-526)
Box 71, Ser. 2
Shaver Lake Dam (121-220)
Box 72, Ser. 2
Shaver Lake Dam (221-280)
Box 73, Ser. 2
Shaver Lake Dam (281-340)
Box 74, Ser. 2
Shaver Lake Dam (341-407)
Box 76, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (61-120)
Box 77, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (121-180)
Box 78, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (181-240)
Box 79, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (241-310)
Box 80, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (311-370)
Box 81, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (371-430)
Box 82, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (431-490)
Box 83, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (491-550)
Box 84, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (551-610)
Box 85, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (611-670)
Box 86, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (671-730)
Box 87, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (731-790)
Box 88, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (791-850)
Box 89, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (851-910)
Box 90, Ser. 2
Florence Lake Dam (911-935)
Box 90, Ser. 2
Stevenson Creek Test Dam (1-20)
Box 91, Ser. 2
Stevenson Creek Test Dam (21-90)
Box 92, Ser. 2
Stevenson Creek Test Dam (91-133)
Box 100, Ser. 2
Westside Projects (11-15)
Box 100, Ser. 2
Mono-Bear Diversion (1-30)
Box 101, Ser. 2
Mono-Bear Diversion (31-100)
Box 102, Ser. 2
Mono-Bear Diversion (101-157)
Box 102, Ser. 2
Huntington-Pitman-Shaver Tunnel (1-15)
Box 103, Ser. 2
Huntington-Pitman-Shaver Tunnel (16-80)
Box 104, Ser. 2
Huntington-Pitman-Shaver Tunnel (81-121)
Box 104, Ser. 2
Big Creek Dog Teams (1-15)
Box 105, Ser. 2
Herminghaus Ranch (16-80)
Box 106, Ser. 2
Herminghaus Ranch (81-97)
Box 106, Ser. 2
Huntington Lake Lodge (1-31)
Box 107, Ser. 2
Big Creek Scenery (21-90)
Box 108, Ser. 2
Big Creek Scenery (91-160)
Box 109, Ser. 2
Big Creek Scenery (161-230)
Box 110, Ser. 2
Big Creek Scenery (231-235)
Box 115, Ser. 2
Kaweah Miscellaneous (1-30)
Box 116, Ser. 2
Kaweah Miscellaneous (31-41)
Box 116, Ser. 2
Kaweah No.1 Powerhouse (1-38)
Box 116, Ser. 2
Kaweah No.2 Powerhouse (1-15)
Box 117, Ser. 2
Kaweah No.2 Powerhouse (16-42)
Box 117, Ser. 2
Kaweah No.3 Powerhouse (1-45)
Box 118, Ser. 2
Kern River Miscellaneous (1-29)
Box 118, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 1 Powerhouse (1-35)
Box 119, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 1 Powerhouse (36-90)
Box 120, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 1 Powerhouse (91-139)
Box 122, Ser. 2
Borel Powerhouse (81-140)
Box 123, Ser. 2
Borel Powerhouse (141-196)
Box 124, Ser. 2
Borel Powerhouse (215-324)
Box 125, Ser. 2
Borel Powerhouse (325-476)
Box 125, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (1-10)
Box 126, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (11-70)
Box 127, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (71-140)
Box 128, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (141-210)
Box 129, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (211-280)
Box 130, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (281-350)
Box 131, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (351-420)
Box 132, Ser. 2
Kern River No. 3 Powerhouse (421-479)
Box 132, Ser. 2
KR3 Coral Creek Diversion (1-2)
Box 132, Ser. 2
Los Angeles City Powerhouse (1-7)
Box 132, Ser. 2
Lytle Creek Powerhouse (1-10)
Box 133, Ser. 2
Lytle Creek Powerhouse (11-27)
Box 133, Ser. 2
Fontana Powerhouse (1-30)
Box 133, Ser. 2
Mill Creek 1, No.2 and 3 Powerhouse (1-20)
Box 134, Ser. 2
Mill Creek 1, No.2 and 3 Powerhouse (21-90)
Box 135, Ser. 2
Mill Creek 1, No.2 and 3 Powerhouse (91-158)
Box 136, Ser. 2
Ontario No. 1 Powerhouse (1-4)
Box 136, Ser. 2
Ontario No. 2 Powerhouse (1-6)
Box 136, Ser. 2
Ontario No. 3 Powerhouse (1)
Box 136, Ser. 2
San Gorgonio 1 and 2 Powerhouse (1-2)
Box 136, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River Miscellaneous (1-2)
Box 136, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River No.1 Powerhouse (1-10)
Box 137, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River No.1 Powerhouse (11-80)
Box 138, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River No.1 Powerhouse (81-160)
Box 139, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River No.2 Powerhouse (2-62)
Box 139, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River No.3 Powerhouse (1-30)
Box 140, Ser. 2
Santa Ana River No.3 Powerhouse (31-66)
Box 140, Ser. 2
Whittier Narrows Dam (1-6)
Box 141, Ser. 2
Alamitos Steam Station (1-4)
Box 141, Ser. 2
Anaheim Electric Plant (1)
Box 141, Ser. 2
El Segundo Steam Station (1-24)
Box 141, Ser. 2
Etiwanda Steam Station (1-60)
Box 142, Ser. 2
Etiwanda Steam Station (61-120)
Box 143, Ser. 2
Etiwanda Steam Station (121-180)
Box 144, Ser. 2
Etiwanda Steam Station (181-198)
Box 144, Ser. 2
Highgrove Powerhouse (1-5)
Box 144, Ser. 2
Huntington Beach Steam Station (1-17)
Box 144, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station (1-43)
Box 145, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (1-70)
Box 146, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (71-135)
Box 147, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (136-200)
Box 148, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (201-270)
Box 149, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (271-340)
Box 150, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (341-410)
Box 151, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (411-480)
Box 152, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (481-550)
Box 153, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (551-620)
Box 154, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (621-680)
Box 155, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 (681-717)
Box 155, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (1-30)
Box 156, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (31-100)
Box 157, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (101-170)
Box 158, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (171-240)
Box 159, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (241-310)
Box 160, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (311-374)
Box 161, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (429-490)
Box 162, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (491-560)
Box 163, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (561-630)
Box 164, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (631-700)
Box 165, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (701-765)
Box 166, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (766-800)
Box 166, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (part 2) (1-30)
Box 167, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 2 (part 2) (31-92)
Box 167, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (88-100)
Box 168, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (101-170)
Box 169, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (171-240)
Box 170, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (241-310)
Box 171, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (311-380)
Box 172, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (381-449)
Box 173, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (451-520)
Box 174, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (521-590)
Box 175, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (591-660)
Box 176, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (661-730)
Box 177, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (731-800)
Box 178, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (801-870)
Box 179, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (871-940)
Box 180, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 (941-966)
Box 180, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station Gas and Discharge Conduit (1-50)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Long Beach Steam Station Gas and Discharge Conduit (51-60)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Los Angeles Steam Plant No.1 (8)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Los Angeles Steam Plant No.3 (1-40)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Mandalay Steam Station (1)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Oxnard Steam Station (5-9)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Redlands Steam Plant (1-2)
Box 181, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station (old) (1-15)
Box 182, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station (old) (16-66)
Box 182, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.1 (1-20)
Box 183, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.1 (21-90)
Box 184, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.1 (91-160)
Box 185, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.1 (161-166)
Box 185, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.2-5 (1-70)
Box 186, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.2-5 (71-130)
Box 187, Ser. 2
Redondo Steam Station No.2-5 (131-189)
Box 188, Ser. 2
Riverside Steam Plant (1-2)
Box 188, Ser. 2
Santa Barbara Steam Plant (1-28)
Box 188, Ser. 2
Santa Monica Steam Plant (1)
Box 188, Ser. 2
South Coast Steam Plant (1)
Box 188, Ser. 2
Standard Oil Company Steam Plant (1-2)
Box 188, Ser. 2
Visalia Steam Plant (1-34)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Vernon Diesel Plant (1-23)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Gas Plant - Miscellaneous (2)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Santa Barbara Gas Plant (2)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Westside Lighting Company Powerhouse (1-2)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Substations - Miscellaneous (1)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Alhambra Substation (1-14)
Box 189, Ser. 2
Altadena Substation (1-5)
Box 190, Ser. 2
Baldwin Park Substation (1-9)
Box 190, Ser. 2
Bandini Substation (1-15)
Box 190, Ser. 2
Bardsdale Substation (1-3)
Box 191, Ser. 2
Beaumont Substation (1-3)
Box 191, Ser. 2
Bellflower Substation (1-3)
Box 191, Ser. 2
Belmont Substation (1-12)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Belvedere Substation (1-3)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Beverly Hills Substation (1-19)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Bicknell Substation (1-5)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Bloomington Substation (1-2)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Bradbury Substation (1-5)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Braun Corp. Substation (1)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Broadway Substation (1-2)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Castaic Substation (1-21)
Box 192, Ser. 2
Camarillo Substation (1-40)
Box 193, Ser. 2
Capistrano Substation (1-46)
Box 193, Ser. 2
Carmenita Substation (1-2)
Box 193, Ser. 2
Carpenteria Substation (1-9)
Box 194, Ser. 2
Charnock Substation (1-7)
Box 195, Ser. 2
Citrus Cove Substation (1-2)
Box 195, Ser. 2
City Receiving Station (1)
Box 195, Ser. 2
City Terrace Substation (1)
Box 195, Ser. 2
Claremont Substation (1-10)
Box 196, Ser. 2
Colton Substation (51-66)
Box 196, Ser. 2
Colton Cement Substation (1-8)
Box 196, Ser. 2
Columbia Steel Substation (1-4)
Box 196, Ser. 2
Culver City Substation (1-10)
Box 197, Ser. 2
Dalton Substation (16-31)
Box 197, Ser. 2
Dol Powerhouse Substation (1)
Box 197, Ser. 2
Eagle Rock Substation (1-9)
Box 198, Ser. 2
Eagle Rock Substation (12-80)
Box 199, Ser. 2
Eagle Rock Substation (81-108)
Box 199, Ser. 2
Earlimart Substation (1-6)
Box 199, Ser. 2
El Monte Substation (1-5)
Box 199, Ser. 2
El Segundo Substation (1-6)
Box 199, Ser. 2
Fairview Substation (2-10)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Fairview Substation (11-21)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Farmersville Substation (1-2)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Fillmore Substation (1-11)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Firestone Substation (1-4)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Foster Park Substation (1)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Fullerton Substation (1-20)
Box 200, Ser. 2
Gardena Heights Substation (2-6)
Box 201, Ser. 2
Garden Grove Substation (2-7)
Box 201, Ser. 2
Garfield Substation (1-4)
Box 201, Ser. 2
General Petroleum Substation (1-2)
Box 201, Ser. 2
Glendora Substation (1-5)
Box 201, Ser. 2
Goodrich Substation (1-4)
Box 201, Ser. 2
Grand Central Airport Substation (1)
Box 201, Ser. 2
Hanford Substation (1-10)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Hanford Substation (11-19)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Hathaway Substation (1-5)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Hawthorne Substation (1-8)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Highgrove Substation (1-5)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Highlands Substation (1-3)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Hollywood Substation (1-4)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Huntington Beach Substation (1-4)
Box 202, Ser. 2
Huntington Park Substation (1-16)
Box 203, Ser. 2
Inglewood Substation (1-10)
Box 203, Ser. 2
Katella Substation (1-54)
Box 204, Ser. 2
KNX Radio Substation (2-7)
Box 204, Ser. 2
La Canada Substation (1-5)
Box 204, Ser. 2
La Fresa Substation (1-50)
Box 204, Ser. 2
Laguna Beach Substation (1-4)
Box 204, Ser. 2
Laguna Bell Substation (1-10)
Box 205, Ser. 2
Laguna Bell Substation (11-80)
Box 206, Ser. 2
Laguna Bell Substation (81-111)
Box 206, Ser. 2
La Habra Substation (1-17)
Box 206, Ser. 2
Lamanda Park Substation (1-8)
Box 206, Ser. 2
Lancaster Substation (1-10)
Box 206, Ser. 2
La Pateria Substation (1)
Box 207, Ser. 2
La Verne Substation (1-13)
Box 207, Ser. 2
Lighthipe Substation (1-96)
Box 207, Ser. 2
Limoneira Substation (1-2)
Box 207, Ser. 2
Little Rock Substation (1-5)
Box 207, Ser. 2
Long Beach Substation (1-10)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Long Beach Substation (11-16)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Alamitos Substation (2-15)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.1 Substation (1-11)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.2 Substation (1-8)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.3 Substation (1-20)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.4 Substation (1-3)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.5 Substation (1-2)
Box 208, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.6 Substation (1-9)
Box 209, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.7 Substation (1)
Box 209, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.8 Substation (1)
Box 209, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.10 Substation (1-5)
Box 209, Ser. 2
Los Angeles No.11 Substation (1)
Box 209, Ser. 2
Los Cerritos Substation (1- 8)
Box 209, Ser. 2
MacNeil Substation (1-30)
Box 209, Ser. 2
Magunden Substation (1-20)
Box 210, Ser. 2
Magunden Substation (21-70)
Box 210, Ser. 2
Manhattan Substation (1-2)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Monolith Substation (1-16)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Monrovia Substation (1-12)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Montalvo Substation (1-2)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Montebello Substation (1-4)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Montecito Substation (1-7)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Monte Vista Substation (1)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Montrose Substation (1-5)
Box 211, Ser. 2
Moorpark Substation (1-6)
Box 212, Ser. 2
Mount Wilson Substation (1)
Box 212, Ser. 2
Newmark Substation (1-50)
Box 213, Ser. 2
Ocean Park Substation (1-15)
Box 213, Ser. 2
Ocean View Substation (1-15)
Box 213, Ser. 2
Oil Wells Substation (1-12)
Box 213, Ser. 2
Owensmouth Substation (1)
Box 214, Ser. 2
Packwood Substation (1-5)
Box 214, Ser. 2
Pasadena Substation (1-8)
Box 214, Ser. 2
Perris Ave. Substation (1)
Box 214, Ser. 2
Pierpont Substation (1-2)
Box 214, Ser. 2
Pine Ave. Substation (1-10)
Box 214, Ser. 2
Pioneer Paper Company Substation (1)
Box 215, Ser. 2
Pomona Fair Substation (1)
Box 215, Ser. 2
Porterville Substation (1-19)
Box 215, Ser. 2
Proctor and Gamble Substation (1)
Box 216, Ser. 2
Puente Substation (21-39)
Box 216, Ser. 2
Redlands Substation (1-5)
Box 217, Ser. 2
Redlands Substation (6-25)
Box 217, Ser. 2
Redondo Substation (1-13)
Box 217, Ser. 2
Richfield Oil Company Substation (1-2)
Box 217, Ser. 2
Rio Grande Oil Company Substation (1-2)
Box 217, Ser. 2
River Power Substation (1-2)
Box 217, Ser. 2
San Antonio Substation (1-17)
Box 218, Ser. 2
San Bernardino Substation (1-9)
Box 218, Ser. 2
San Dimas Substation (1-9)
Box 218, Ser. 2
San Fernando Substation (1-24)
Box 218, Ser. 2
San Gabriel Substation (1-12)
San Marino Substation (1-3)
Box 218, Ser. 2
San Pedro Substation (1-5)
Box 218, Ser. 2
Santa Ana Substation (1-8)
Box 219, Ser. 2
Santa Ana Substation (9-15)
Box 219, Ser. 2
Santa Barbara Substation (1-17)
Box 219, Ser. 2
Santa Fe Springs Substation (1-14)
Box 219, Ser. 2
Santa Monica Substation (1-12)
Box 219, Ser. 2
Santa Paula Substation (1-12)
Box 219, Ser. 2
Santa Susana Substation (1-6)
Box 219, Ser. 2
San Vincente Substation (1-2)
Box 220, Ser. 2
Saticoy Substation (1-21)
Box 220, Ser. 2
Sawtelle Substation (1-10)
Box 220, Ser. 2
Seal Beach Substation (1-6)
Box 220, Ser. 2
Shell Oil Substation (1-6)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Sierra Madre Substation (1-4)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Signal Hill Substation (1-14)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Slauson Ave. Substation (1)
Box 221, Ser. 2
South Park Substation (1)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Springville Substation (1-5)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Standard Oil Company Substation (1-2)
Box 221, Ser. 2
State Street Substation (1-4)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Station "C" Substation (1-5)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Station "D" Substation (1-6)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Strathmore Substation (1-9)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Strawberry Park Substation (1)
Box 221, Ser. 2
Summerland Substation (1-8)
Box 222, Ser. 2
Sycamore Substation (1-8)
Box 222, Ser. 2
Tajiquas Rancho Substation (1-5)
Box 222, Ser. 2
Terra Bella Substation (1-5)
Box 222, Ser. 2
Tippecanoe Substation (1)
Box 222, Ser. 2
Toro Canyon Substation (1)
Box 222, Ser. 2
Torrance Substation (1-20)
Box 223, Ser. 2
Torrance Substation (21-38)
Box 223, Ser. 2
Union Oil Company Substation (1-2)
Box 223, Ser. 2
Union Tool Company Substation (1-8)
Box 223, Ser. 2
Van Nuys Substation (1-3)
Box 224, Ser. 2
Venice Hill Substation (1-10)
Box 225, Ser. 2
Vestal Substation (33-109)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Villa Park Substation (1)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Virginia City Substation (1)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Water Street Substation (1)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Westflor Substation (1-8)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Westminster Substation (1)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Whittier Substation (1-10)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Wilmington Substation (1-2)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Woodville Substation (1-8)
Box 226, Ser. 2
Transmission Lines Miscellaneous (1-20)
Box 227, Ser. 2
Transmission Lines Miscellaneous (21-91)
Box 228, Ser. 2
Transmission Lines Miscellaneous (92-162)
Box 229, Ser. 2
Transmission Lines Miscellaneous (163-237)
Box 230, Ser. 2
Barre-Lighthipe Transmission Line (1-97)
Box 230, Ser. 2
Big Creek Transmission Line (1-42)
Box 231, Ser. 2
Big Creek Transmission Line (43-114)
Box 232, Ser. 2
Big Creek Transmission Line (115-124)
Box 232, Ser. 2
Big Creek No.4-Magunden Transmission Line (214-225)
Box 232, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino 1, 2 Transmission Line (1-41)
Box 233, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino 1, 2 Transmission Line (42-110)
Box 234, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino 1, 2 Transmission Line (111-180)
Box 235, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino 1, 2 Transmission Line (181-255)
Box 236, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino 1, 2 Transmission Line (257-308)
Box 236, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino No.3 Transmission Line (1-10)
Box 237, Ser. 2
Boulder-Chino No.3 Transmission Line (11-38)
Box 237, Ser. 2
Chino-Barre Transmission Line (1-12)
Box 237, Ser. 2
Chino-Capistrano Transmission Line (1-22)
Box 237, Ser. 2
Chino-Colton Transmission Line (1-2)
Box 238, Ser. 2
Chino-Laguna Bell Transmission Line (1-28)
Box 238, Ser. 2
Eagle-Bell Transmission Line (1-42)
Box 239, Ser. 2
Eagle-Bell Transmission Line (43-111)
Box 240, Ser. 2
Eagle-Bell Transmission Line (112-170)
Box 240, Ser. 2
Etiwanda-Barre Transmission Line (1)
Box 240, Ser. 2
Hayfield-Highgrove Transmission Line (1)
Box 240, Ser. 2
Highgrove-Chino Transmission Line (1-3)
Box 240, Ser. 2
Katella-Villa Park Transmission Line (1)
Box 241, Ser. 2
Kern River and Borel Transmission Lines (1-50)
Box 241, Ser. 2
Laguna Bell-Century Transmission Line (1)
Box 241, Ser. 2
Long Beach-Lighthipe-Laguna Bell Transmission Line (1-20)
Box 242, Ser. 2
Long Beach-Lighthipe-Laguna Bell Transmission Line (21-90)
Box 243, Ser. 2
Long Beach-Lighthipe-Laguna Bell Transmission Line (91-108)
Box 243, Ser. 2
La Fresa Transmission Line (1-25)
Box 243, Ser. 2
Magunden-Mesa Transmission Line (1-24)
Box 244, Ser. 2
Magunden-Mesa Transmission Line (25-35)
Box 244, Ser. 2
Malibu-Crater Transmission Line (1)
Box 244, Ser. 2
Newport Bay Transmission Line (1)
Box 244, Ser. 2
Redondo-La Fresa Transmission Line (1-6)
Box 244, Ser. 2
Saugus Transmission Line (1)
Box 244, Ser. 2
Vincent Transmission Line (1-50)
Box 245, Ser. 2
Vincent Transmission Line (51-100)
Box 245, Ser. 2
Distribution Lines (1-23)
Box 246, Ser. 2
Distribution Lines (25-114)
Box 247, Ser. 2
Distribution Lines (115-184)
Box 248, Ser. 2
Distribution Lines (185-256)
Box 249, Ser. 2
Distribution Lines (257-327)
Box 250, Ser. 2
Distribution Lines (328-357)
Box 250, Ser. 2
Distribution Underground (3-42)
Box 252, Ser. 2
Local Offices P-S (61-131)
Box 253, Ser. 2
Local Offices T-Z (132-156)
Box 253, Ser. 2
General Store - Alhambra (1-45)
Box 254, Ser. 2
General Store - Alhambra (46-56)
Box 254, Ser. 2
General Store - Warehouse (1-19)
Box 254, Ser. 2
General Store - Shop and Test (1-30)
Box 255, Ser. 2
General Store - Poleyard (1-14)
Box 255, Ser. 2
General Store - Telecom (1-12)
Box 255, Ser. 2
General Store - Garage (1)
Box 255, Ser. 2
General Store - Dispatch (1-4)
Box 255, Ser. 2
Facilities: Caliente-Long Beach (1-34)
Box 256, Ser. 2
Facilities: Los Angeles (1-54)
Box 256, Ser. 2
Facilities: Mill Creek-Whittier (1-14)
Box 257, Ser. 2
Facilities: Mill Creek-Whittier (15-46)
Box 257, Ser. 2
A1.1 - Accidents / injuries (1-44)
Box 258, Ser. 2
A1.1 - Accidents / injuries (45-118)
Box 259, Ser. 2
A1.1 - Accidents / injuries (1-44)
Box 261, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (96-165)
Box 262, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (166-235)
Box 263, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (237-307)
Box 264, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (308-384)
Box 265, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (385-455)
Box 266, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (456-531)
Box 267, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (532-605)
Box 268, Ser. 2
A1.2 - Accidents (606-673)
Box 269, Ser. 2
A1.3 - Auto Accidents (1-70)
Box 270, Ser. 2
A1.3 - Auto Accidents (71-109)
Box 270, Ser. 2
A1.4 - Natural Disasters (1-35)
Box 271, Ser. 2
A1.4 - Natural Disasters (36-124)
Box 271, Ser. 2
A1.6 - Saint Francis Dam Disaster (1-16)
Box 272, Ser. 2
A1.6 - Saint Francis Dam Disaster (17-57)
Box 272, Ser. 2
A1.7 - Safety First (1-36)
Box 272, Ser. 2
A2 - Air Conditioning (1-7)
Box 273, Ser. 2
A2 - Air Conditioning (8-33)
Box 273, Ser. 2
A2-Ab - Air Conditioning Residential (1-3)
Box 273, Ser. 2
A2-Ba - Air Conditioning Commercial (1-10)
Box 273, Ser. 2
A2-Bb - Air Conditioning Retail (1-14)
Box 273, Ser. 2
A2-Bc - Air Conditioning Restaurants (1-18)
Box 274, Ser. 2
A2-Bc - Air Conditioning Restaurants (19-33)
Box 274, Ser. 2
A2-Bd - Air Conditioning Theaters (1-5)
Box 274, Ser. 2
A2-Be - Air Conditioning Medical (1-23)
Box 274, Ser. 2
A2-Bf - Air Conditioning Banks (19-33)
Box 274, Ser. 2
A2-Dc - Air Conditioning Industrial (1-5)
Box 274, Ser. 2
A3.1 - Appliances Miscellaneous (1-16)
Box 275, Ser. 2
A3.1 - Appliances Miscellaneous (17-87)
Box 276, Ser. 2
A3.1 - Appliances Miscellaneous (88-161)
Box 277, Ser. 2
A3.1 - Appliances Miscellaneous (162-227)
Box 279, Ser. 2
A3.4 - Cooking School (1-11)
Box 279, Ser. 2
B1.1 - Buildings Miscellaneous (1-28)
Box 280, Ser. 2
B1.1 - Buildings Miscellaneous (29-90)
Box 281, Ser. 2
B1.1 - Buildings Miscellaneous (91-160)
Box 282, Ser. 2
B1.1 - Buildings Miscellaneous (161-231)
Box 283, Ser. 2
B1.20 - Edison Building - 5th and Grand (1-66)
Box 283, Ser. 2
B1.21 - New Edison Building (1-18)
Box 284, Ser. 2
B1.21 - New Edison Building (19-88)
Box 285, Ser. 2
B1.22 - New Building - Framing (1-10)
Box 285, Ser. 2
B1.23 - New Building - Lighting (1-13)
Box 285, Ser. 2
B1.24 - New Building - Annex (1-4)
Box 285, Ser. 2
B1.25 - Engstrom Apts. (1-24)
Box 285, Ser. 2
B1.3 - Edison Building - 3rd and Broadway (1-26)
Box 286, Ser. 2
B1.3 - Edison Building - 3rd and Broadway (27-77)
Box 286, Ser. 2
B1.4 - 4th Street Office (1-8)
Box 286, Ser. 2
B1.5 - Boylston Office (No.2)
Box 286, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (1-11)
Box 287, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (12-81)
Box 288, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (82-151)
Box 289, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (152-221)
Box 290, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (222-291)
Box 291, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (292-361)
Box 292, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (362-431)
Box 293, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (432-501)
Box 294, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (502-571)
Box 295, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (572-641)
Box 296, Ser. 2
C1.1 - Charts Miscellaneous (642-657)
Box 303, Ser. 2
D2.1 - Displays Miscellaneous (1-53)
Box 304, Ser. 2
D2.2 - Displays - Tro Powerhouse (1-7)
Box 304, Ser. 2
D2.3 - Displays - Window (4-99)
Box 305, Ser. 2
D2.3 - Displays - Window (100-112)
Box 305, Ser. 2
D2.4 - Displays - Fairs (1-70)
Box 306, Ser. 2
D2.4 - Displays - Fairs (71-95)
Box 306, Ser. 2
D2.5 - Displays - Monument (1-9)
Box 306, Ser. 2
E1.1 - Electric Equipment (1-40)
Box 307, Ser. 2
E1.1 - Electric Equipment (41-100)
Box 308, Ser. 2
E1.1 - Electric Equipment (101-188)
Box 309, Ser. 2
E1.2 - Electric Equipment - Motors (101-188)
Box 309, Ser. 2
E1.2 - Electric Equipment - Transformers (1-39)
Box 309, Ser. 2
H1.1 - Heavy Duty Industrial (1-12)
Box 310, Ser. 2
H1.1 - Heavy Duty Industrial (13-82)
Box 311, Ser. 2
H1.1 - Heavy Duty Industrial (83-152)
Box 312, Ser. 2
H1.1 - Heavy Duty Industrial (153-173)
Box 312, Ser. 2
H1.2 - Heavy Duty Cooking (1-36)
Box 313, Ser. 2
H1.2 - Heavy Duty Cooking (37-82)
Box 313, Ser. 2
H1.3 - Heavy Duty Ag. Machinery (1-7)
Box 313, Ser. 2
H1.4 - Heavy Duty Oil Industry (1-17)
Box 314, Ser. 2
H1.4 - Heavy Duty Oil Industry (18-32)
Box 314, Ser. 2
H2.1 - Homes Miscellaneous (1-4)
Box 314, Ser. 2
H2.2 - Homes - Electric Home Tour (1-27)
Box 315, Ser. 2
H2.2 - Homes - Electric Home Tour (27a-63)
Box 316, Ser. 2
H2.2 - Homes - Electric Home Tour (64-76)
Box 316, Ser. 2
H2.3 - Homes -Kitchen (1-31j)
Box 317, Ser. 2
H2.3 - Homes -Kitchen (31k-33j)
Box 317, Ser. 2
H2.4 - Homes - Bath (1-6)
Box 318, Ser. 2
H2.4 - Homes - Bath (7-10)
Box 318, Ser. 2
H2.5 - Homes - Bedroom (1-12)
Box 318, Ser. 2
H2.6 - Homes - Dining Room (1-14)
Box 318, Ser. 2
H2.7 - Homes - Living Room (1-12l)
Box 319, Ser. 2
H2.7 - Homes - Living Room (12m-42)
Box 319, Ser. 2
I1 - Inventions/Developments (1-16)
Box 320, Ser. 2
I1 - Inventions/Developments (17-52)
Box 320, Ser. 2
L1.1 - Lighting Miscellaneous (1-23)
Box 321, Ser. 2
L1.1 - Lighting Miscellaneous (24-84)
Box 322, Ser. 2
L1.1 - Lighting Miscellaneous (85-125)
Box 323, Ser. 2
L1.2 - Lighting - Streets (1-82)
Box 324, Ser. 2
L1.2 - Lighting - Streets (83-125)
Box 324, Ser. 2
L1.3 - Lighting - Stores (1-22)
Box 325, Ser. 2
L1.3 - Lighting - Stores (23-86)
Box 326, Ser. 2
L1.3 - Lighting - Stores (87-107)
Box 327, Ser. 2
L1.3 - Lighting - Stores (108-114a)
Box 327, Ser. 2
L1.4 - Lighting - Sports (1-11)
Box 327, Ser. 2
L1.5 - Lighting - Offices (1-26)
Box 328, Ser. 2
L1.6 - Lighting - Service Stations (1-11)
Box 328, Ser. 2
L1.7 - Lighting - Schools/Libraries (1-13)
Box 328, Ser. 2
L1.8 - Lighting - Packing Plants (1-14f)
Box 329, Ser. 2
L1.8 - Lighting - Packing Plants (14g-19)
Box 329, Ser. 2
N1 - Nurseries and Soil Heating (1-53)
Box 330, Ser. 2
O1 - Oil Wells and Equipment (1-69)
Box 331, Ser. 2
O1 - Oil Wells and Equipment (70-124)
Box 331, Ser. 2
P1.1 - Group Portraits (1-17)
Box 332, Ser. 2
P1.1 - Group Portraits (18-102)
Box 333, Ser. 2
P1.1 - Group Portraits (103-186)
Box 334, Ser. 2
P1.1 - Group Portraits (187-280)
Box 335, Ser. 2
P1.1 - Group Portraits (281-366)
Box 336, Ser. 2
P1.1 - Group Portraits (366a-456)
Box 337, Ser. 2
P1.2 - Portraits Miscellaneous (1-77)
Box 338, Ser. 2
P1.2 - Portraits Miscellaneous (78-89a)
Box 338, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (A-C) (1-58)
Box 339, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (D-F) (1-29)
Box 339, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (G-I) (1-26)
Box 339, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (J-L) (1-10)
Box 340, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (J-L) (11-36)
Box 340, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (M-O) (1-19)
Box 340, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (P-S) (1-30)
Box 341, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (P-S) (31-63)
Box 341, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (T-V) (1-4)
Box 341, Ser. 2
P1.3 - Portraits (W-Z) (1-18)
Box 343, Ser. 2
P4 - Pumping Plants (1-45)
Box 344, Ser. 2
P4 - Pumping Plants (46-114)
Box 345, Ser. 2
P4 - Pumping Plants (115-167)
Box 346, Ser. 2
S1.2 - Scenery - Mountains (1-34)
Box 346, Ser. 2
S1.4 - Scenery - Oceans (1-6)
Box 350, Ser. 2
T3.1 - Transportation - Autos, Trucks and Rail (10-110)
Box 351, Ser. 2
T3.1 - Transportation - Autos, Trucks and Rail (111-228)
Box 352, Ser. 2
T3.1 - Transportation - Autos, Trucks and Rail (229-341)
Box 353, Ser. 2
T3.1 - Transportation - Autos, Trucks and Rail (342-345)
Box 353, Ser. 2
T3.2 - Transportation - S.J.andE. RR (2-53)
Box 353, Ser. 2
T3.3 - Transportation - S.B.andS. Railway (2-14)
Box 353, Ser. 2
Edison Advertising Program (1-21)
Box 354, Ser. 2
Edison Advertising Program (22-28)
Box 354, Ser. 2
Edison Scrap Drives (1-12)
Box 354, Ser. 2
General Miscellaneous (1-7)
Box 354, Ser. 2
Power Producers (Not Edison) (1-39)
Box 355, Ser. 2
Power Producers (Not Edison) (40-66)
Box 355, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - Airports (1-14)
Box 355, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - Army Aviation Cmd. (1-7)
Box 355, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - General (1-20)
Box 356, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - General (21-76)
Box 356, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - Hollywood Park (1-14)
Box 357, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - Hollywood Park (15-16)
Box 357, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - KHJ Television (1-4)
Box 357, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - Knott's Berry Place (1-8)
Box 357, Ser. 2
Power Consumers - Santa Barbara (1-21)
Box 357, Ser. 2
Southern California Views (1-21)
Box 358, Ser. 2
Hydro Turbine Buckets (1-6)
Box 358, Ser. 2
Unidentified images (1-13)
Photograph albums Series 3
approximately 1904-1945
Physical Description: 180
Volumes (179 boxes)
Scope and Contents
The photograph albums are focused on project surveys, construction, operations, and
facilities related to various hydroelectric projects dating from approximately 1904
through 1945. Many volumes depict the Big Creek project from inception through its
numerous expansions.
Volumes were compiled by Southern California Edison as well as engineering firms and
consultants; employees; and various predecessor companies, including Pacific Light &
Power, Edison Electric Company, Southern Sierras Power Company, Mount Whitney Power
Company, Nevada Power, Mining and Milling Company, and Nevada-California Electric
Corporation. Original Edison volume number is noted where known. Some "albums" are
compilations of loose photographs by topic. A majority of the albums were scanned and
are available in the Huntington Digital Library (see Series 1).
Box 1, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2
November 1912 - January 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and No. 2 [Construction camps, Commissary,
General Office, Engineers Building, gravel pit, crusher-washer plant, warehouses, cook
house, dining hall, operator's cottages, bunkhouses, Hoist 2, locomotives No. 10 and
No. 6, railroad roundhouse, water station, incline railway. Construction: pipeline,
Dams 1, 2, & 3, Tunnel 2, west portal, and Adits.] Photographer: Stone &
Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 2, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2
January - March 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 [Locomotive No. 11 in snow; snow survey;
Construction Camps 1F, 2, 6, and 7; excavation tunnels 1 and 2; construction at Dams
1, 2, 3, and 4; penstock & flow-line construction; sawmill; gravel pit; incline
railways; Cascada material staging.] Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering
Corporation.
Box 3, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2
March - April 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: Sluicing construction sites; Camp 2
Warehouse; Meat storage and butchers; Concrete mixers; Camps 3, 6, and 7; Adit 2, and
3; Cascada yards; Transmission line construction; Excavation and construction at Dams
1, 2, 3, and 4, flowline, penstocks, surge shaft; Incline railway; Tunnels 1, and 2;
Huntington Lake. Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 4, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2; construction of Huntington Lake
Dams 1, 2, and 3, and Dam 4, power tunnels, intakes, etc.
April - June 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 and Construction of Huntington Lake Dams
1, 2, 3, and 4. Views of tunnels, intakes, dams, reservoirs, lakes, and powerhouses in
various stages of construction. Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering
Corporation.
Box 5, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2
June - September 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: Huntington Lake sawmill and logging;
Camps 1a, 2, 6, and 7; Dams 1, 3, and 4; Incline railways; Penstocks; Flow pipes;
Interior and exterior views of Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2 construction; Tunnel 1;
Incline railways. Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 6, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2
September - October 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: Camp 7; meat house; Tunnels 3 and 4
east portal; Flowline; Dams 1, 2, 3, and 4; Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2
switchboards; Oil switches; High tension bushings; Stand pipes and surge chamber.
Photographer: Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 7, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: operating, interior and
exterior views, 150kV bus, transformers, units 1-2; Dam 4 & reservoir,
construction, penstocks, standpipes
October - November 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2: Powerhouse 1 in operation, interior and
exterior views; 150kV bus, transformers, Units 1 and 2; Dam 4 and reservoir;
Powerhouse 2 construction, penstocks, standpipes. Photographer: Stone & Webster
Engineering Corporation.
Box 8, Ser. 3
F.P.C. Vol. 1, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Florence Lake Dam,
Florence Tunnel, & Mono-Bear Diversion
October 8, 1921 - July 3, 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Florence Reservoir, Florence Tunnel, and Mono-Bear. Views include Big Creek Canyon;
Florence Lake Dam site, including diamond drilling, clearing site, crib dam; Florence
Lake Dam construction, forms construction; Florence Tunnel intake, tunnel excavation;
Mono Dam construction: Mono-Bear junction; Mono-Bear siphon construction.
Box 9, Ser. 3
F.P.C. Vol. 3, Projects 67 and 120 - Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 3
and construction camps
August 1920 - November 1929
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Powerhouse 3 and construction camps 1 to 54. Views include Tunnel 3,
including intake construction, portal adit Camp 36, Camp 35 adit, outlet portal;
Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber, drill sharpeners, connecting
18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to railroad sluicing water at
outlet; Tunnel 3 excavation; Surge chamber construction; Construction views of
Powerhouse 3, installation of 3 penstocks, turbine and generator installations at No.
3; Construction of 220kV switchyard.
Box 10, Ser. 3
F.P.C. Vol. 4, Projects 67 and 120
August 1912 - June 1930
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Transportation, Vincent Transmission Line, and Stream gaging. San Joaquin and Eastern
Railroad; Incline railroads at Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2, Powerhouse No. 3, and
Powerhouse No. 8, Project 3 road construction in San Joaquin Canyon; winter
transportation service, road construction for Florence Lake and Tunnel project; Trucks
at Mono-Bear siphon; Vincent Transmission Line construction; Stream gauging; Mammoth
Pool dam site; Westside projects, Powerhouse 8 Transmission Line; Views of Big Creek
general office, machine shop, and radio room; Huntington Lake; Big Creek Powerhouse
No. 1 and penstocks; Boylston Street drafting room during the peak of Big Creek
construction; Eagle-Bell transmission line; Long Beach Steam Station.
Box 11, Ser. 3
F.P.C. Vol. 4, Projects 67 and 120 (copy 2)
August 1912 - June 1930
Scope and Contents
Duplicate of F.P.C. Vol. 4 but missing several pages.
Box 12, Ser. 3
Pacific Light & Power Corp. - Big Creek early construction
photos
1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek. Includes views of gravel pit, sluicing
Powerhouse No. 2 site; Powerhouse 1 under construction; Powerhouse 2 under
construction; Units 1 and 2 at Powerhouse 1; Powerhouse 2 switchboard, generator,
Hoist No. 2, oil switch room, 6600 V switch room, local service switchboard, generator
assembly; Tunnel 2 - adit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8; Intake to Tunnel 1, 9' flow
pipe, west portal Tunnel 1, concreting surge tank at West Portal Tunnel 2. Photographs
by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 13, Ser. 3
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
photos
1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line,
sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington
Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek
Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse
No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on
Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards.
Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 14, Ser. 3
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
photos
1912 - 1913
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Big Creek Camps 1, 1A, 1C, 1E,
1F, 2, 3, 4, 4A, 6, 7; Planing mill, cement warehouse, kitchen, sawmill, incline
railroad, meat house, mess hall, road construction, machine shop and blacksmith,
general office at Camp 2, general warehouse, construction of Crusher Washer Plant,
hospital operating room at Camp 2, dining room, gravel storage, operator's cottage in
snow, bunk houses, Dam 1 (and intake), Dam 2, and Dam 3. Photographs by Stone &
Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 15, Ser. 3
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
photos
1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse No. 2 construction,
including pouring walls and sluicing below Powerhouse No. 2; Camp 7; crushing plant;
generator room; Construction at Dams No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4; Intake at Dam 1.
Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
Box 16, Ser. 3
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
photos
1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including construction of Penstock 2 and
Powerhouse 2; East portal Tunnel 4; Adit 5, backfill on flowline, incline railroad No.
2, Adit 3 Tunnel 2, 84" flowline installation, site for Powerhouse No. 2, Penstock No.
1, and Powerhouse 1 construction. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering
Corporation.
Box 17, Ser. 3
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
photos
1912 - 1913
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including excavation for Powerhouse 1
site and penstock path, steel up for Powerhouse1 walls, Powerhouse1 in framing stages,
Powerhouse1 construction site covered with snow, concrete chutes for Powerhouse1,
concreting Dam No. 1, snow plow on railroad, transformer tanks, clearing for
transmission line, Powerhouse1: switchboards, transformers, oil switches, pressing
Unit 1 rotor, generation room, bus room, Unit 1 shaft on bearings, pressing runner on
shaft, tanking transformer cores, sub-floor wire conduit layout, 150kV Bus Room.
Box 18, Ser. 3
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. - Big Creek construction
photos
approximately 1912
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including Powerhouse 1 site and early
construction; weir; fishing on Big Creek and San Joaquin River; cabins; San Joaquin
and Eastern Railroad; Snow scenes at Big Creek.
Box 19, Ser. 3
Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Fresno
County, California
approximately 1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery; man fishing; woman and
child outside tent cabin at Cascada; Bridge over Big Creek near Powerhouse 1 site;
Powerhouse 1 under construction; Water line with Kerckhoff Dome overhead; Dam No. 4
site and near completion; Cascada Falls, Pitman Creek; Sawmill at reservoir site.
Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
Box 20, Ser. 3
Pacific Light & Power Corp. - San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad; early
Big Creek
approximately 1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Co. and Big Creek scenery. Only a few scenic shots
of early Big Creek construction period remain in this album. The majority of the album
was probably made up of San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad and 8 x 10 in. powerhouse
photographs. Twenty-nine of these Powerhouse photos have been ripped from the pages
and, taken from the albums. Only one railroad powerhouse photograph remains in the
album. Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
Box 21, Ser. 3
Big Creek; San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad
1918 - 1925
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
On spine of album: San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Auberry, Cascada, Clovis, Dog
Team, Radio. Album begins with group of editors on San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad en
route to Big Creek in 1923; Cascada Station; Auberry: machine shop, mess hall and
penstock staging area; Cascada: mail room, school house, mess hall after fire, gas
tanks, offices, hospital, recreation hall, warehouse dormitory, tennis court, boxing
match, pole treating plant, construction of tunnel dump cars and concrete gun pipes,
dance party, warehouse, laundry room, cookhouse, and two-story bunkhouse; Camp 38
hospital; Clovis: cottages, water tanks, and sawmill; Sled Dog Team, and horse drawn
sleds; Camp 62: telegraph room; Camp 63 radio equipment; Camp 3 radio room.
Photographer: Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
Box 22, Ser. 3
Big Creek: streams, gauging stations, accidents, dam sites
1917 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
On spine of album: Streams, Gauging Stations, Dam Sites, Accidents, Miscellaneous
Scenes. San Joaquin River, Blaney Meadows, Big Creek Lower Falls, Chiquito Creek,
Granite Creek, Boggy Meadows, Gauge Houses, Banner and Ritter Peaks, Balloon Dome,
Squaw Dome, Miller's Bridge, McClure Meadow, Sapphire Lake, Evolution Creek, Glaciers,
Piute Creek, Pitman Creek Weir; Dam Sites: Mammoth Pool Reservoir, Forks Reservoir,
Miller's Bridge Reservoir, Paradise Bar Reservoir, Wanda Lake, Desolation Lake,
Stevenson Creek Test Dam, Shaver Lake; Stream gauging: recorders, stations, and field
cabins for personnel; San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad accidents; miscellaneous Big
Creek Powerhouses.
Box 23, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Florence Lake and Dam
1925 - 1929
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Florence Lake dam: maintenance, including miscellaneous paint samples on arches, test
slabs, backcountry Powerhouses, spill of water through Ward Tunnel from Florence Lake,
flume collapsed from Ward Tunnel spill, Spillway at Florence Lake Dam cresting with
logs and debris caught on drum gates, mountains above Florence Lake, and shots of
different stages of construction of Florence Lake Dam. Photographer: Pacific Light
& Power Corporation.
Box 24, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Florence Lake Dam and Dam No. 2
1920 - 1931
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
On spine of album: Florence Lake and Dam. Construction of main river channel, "Frog
Pond" section, River Gorge section, trench for buttress 52, Insley tower at Frog Pond,
tunnel intake, Camp 64 Hospital and ambulance, construction on diversion dam for
intake, proposed wood stave flowline from Florence to Shaver Lake, Camp 62, tunnel
excavation, logging reservoir site, Camp 65 sawmill, Camp 60 warehouse. Photographer:
Pacific Light & Power Corporation.
Box 25, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel
1920 - 1927
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Florence Lake Tunnel No. 6 (Ward Tunnel): Photographs of Electric train, concrete
batch cars, group photographs of laborers, powder magazine, setting drills, firing
switches, steam shovel, tunnel mucking, tunnel breakthrough, tunnel mess train, first
round at intake portal, intake portal, outlet portal with flow, outlet flume washout;
Camps 31, 60, 61, 62, 63, including library, bath house, housing, boxing match, tool
sharpening shop, hospital, office, kitchen, cold storage, ice house, warehouse, dining
room, sawmill, the Editors' Party, transmission line, blacksmith shop; Huntington
Lake: Daw's Cottage.
Box 26, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Dams
1917 - 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Dams 1, 2, 3, 3A, 5 and 6 including Dam 1 intake tower (interior and
exterior), seepage, sluice pipes, spilling over top and through spillways, automatic
siphons; Dam 2 - watchman's house; Dam 3 and 3A; Dam 4 spilling; Dam 5 - site
excavation, forms up, diversion flume, dam construction, trash rack, sluicing mud
banks, Powerhouse 8 forebay construction; Dam 6 - site excavation, construction,
coffer dam, diversion, framework, primary rock crusher No. 9, Tunnel 3 intake, Dam 6
spilling.
Box 27, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Tunnels
1920 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Tunnels 1, 3, and 8, including intake construction at Tunnel 3, portal adit Camp 36,
Camp 35 adit, outlet portal, Penstock 3 portal structure and manifold, surge chamber,
drill sharpeners, connecting 18' penstock to manifold, butterfly valve house, flume to
sluicing water at outlet, guests standing in 18' penstock, sluicing tunnel; Stevenson
Creek, Camps 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 compressors, Camp 38 mess hall, Camp 33;
Cascada - Baldwin 15 ton locomotive No. 4; Tunnel 8 construction, Adit 1; Intake at
Dam 1 repairs.
Box 28, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 1 (part 1)
1917 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse No. 1, Part One. Views include generator floor, exterior
with extension, close-up of Powerhouse 1, generator repairs, Unit 3 penstock
construction, riveting penstock, transformer rack, substation, exterior before
extension, extension construction, hoist house interior, assembly of Units 3 and 4,
change to 220 kV transformers.
Box 29, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 1 (part 2)
1920 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse No. 1, Part Two. Photographs of drying transformers, 220kV
bushings, damaged coils, new 220kV nameplates, Klydontograph, 66kV - 30kV construction
substation, new 220kV autotransformer installations, hoisting transformers, 220 kV
Towers, Substation, ruptured penstock, 4th Unit penstock installation, incline
concrete batch cars, tunnel for Unit 4 penstock, 3rd Unit penstock installation, 4th
unit flowline, incline hoist.
Box 30, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 2 and 2a (part 1)
1919 - 1929
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part One. Construction photographs of Powerhouse
2 and 2A.
Box 31, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 2 and 2a (part 2)
1920 - 1925
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part Two. Views of auto transformers, substation,
new 6600 V line, new bridge for powerhouse extension, Unit No. 4 with direct connected
exciter, constructing new Unit No. 4, 150kV - 220kV Bushings, switchboard,
installation of new Unit No. 4 penstock, concrete plant, incline batch cars, stand
pipes, Unit No. 3 foundation, Unit No. 3 penstock install, valve house modification,
rock crushing plant, Johnson Valve, assembly of new Unit No. 3, auto circuit breakers,
150kV Oil Switch, new hoist, autotransformers, and 11kV equipment, new Bus Bar
installation, Governor No. 4; Camp No. 7 - telephone exchange, cottage, machine shop,
warehouse, mess hall construction, sawmill; Camp No. 5 - forebay construction, batch
plant, steam shovel excavating.
Box 32, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 2 and 2a (part 3)
1920 - 1925
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, Part Three. Construction at Powerhouse 2A, images
depicting the fabrication of seamless steel pressure pipe [penstock] sections, forging
hollow steel blocks into pipe, machining seamless steel pipe sections to proper
thickness, pressure testing pipe sections, assembly of penstock sections and valves at
Powerhouse 2A.
Box 33, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 3 (part 1)
1919 - 1940
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse No. 3, Part 1. Construction photographs of first forms up
on powerhouse, staging and concrete plant, Switching Station, powerhouse steel
framework, generator floor, draft tube construction, incline, views from above,
penstock construction, Tunnel 3, CO2 equipment on Unit 3, Penstock binding,
dispatcher's building, manifold assembly, oil circuit breakers, transformers, Dam 6
spilling, completed Powerhouse 3.
Box 34, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 3 (part 2)
1920 - 1940
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Powerhouse No. 3, Part 2. Views of generator floor with Units 1, 2,
and 3 installed, excavation of Powerhouse 3 site with steam shovel and high pressure
water gun, Switchyard construction, turbine parts, battery room, construction of
penstocks, turbine assembly. Also penstock construction for Unit 3, Powerhouse No. 1
.
Box 35, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 8 (part 1)
1920 - 1940
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Powerhouse No. 8, Part One. Photographs of Dam 6, Camp 34, Camp 38, overview of
Powerhouse 8 and penstock, milling Powerhouse 8 draft tube, operator's cottage,
forebay, sluicing tailrace, generator floor, switchboard, rocks washed into tailrace
after penstock burst, Unit No. 2 at Pelton Water Wheel Co., generator and governor at
Powerhouse 8, penstock vent, transformers and bus, station power sets, switchboard,
broken penstock, drilling tunnel No. 8, repaired penstock, steel forebay, Camp 32 cook
house, Johnson Valve, Camp 33.
Box 36, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Powerhouse No. 8 (part 2)
1920 - 1924
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Powerhouse No. 8, Part Two. Photographs of Powerhouse 8 diversion, excavation for
powerhouse, diversion tunnel construction, interior shots of Powerhouse No. 8
(transformers, control room, turbine-generator assembly, station power, Johnson Valve,
turbine runner, crane assembly, scroll case assembly, draft tube); Penstock rupture -
ripped Penstock, flattened pipe, damage to powerhouse and other facilities, reshaping
pipe, adding reinforcing bands to high stress sections of penstock; Camp 33, operator
dormitory, substation, incline construction.
Box 37, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Shaver Lake No. 2
1918 - 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Shaver Lake No. 2. Shaver Dam construction, including excavation, forms, concrete
placement, diversions, Shaver Lake and old dam, aggregate conveyor belt, old dam and
intake to Shaver Tunnel, quarry, duplex valve near Dam 2, Bear diversion dam,
construction of Shaver Dam, finished dam showing areas with some leakage.
Box 38, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Shaver Lake No. 1
1918 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Shaver Lake No. 1. Shaver Dam construction, including original lake bed, logging area
of expansion, blacksmith shop, weirs at sawmill, Shaver Lake office and mess hall,
original dam, surveys for new dam, Shaver Tunnel, Shaver flume from old dam entering
tunnel, Adit 8 excavation, flushing tunnel outlet, Shaver Lake Railroad, Camp 11,
lumber operations, Camp 19, Shaver cookhouse fire, dismantling Shaver railroad.
Box 39, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Mono-Bear and Huntington-Shaver Diversions
1925 - 1929
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Views of Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear pipelines and diversions, and Huntington
-Shaver diversions. Construction of Bear Creek Dam and intake structure, and Mono
Creek Dam and intake structure, logging area for Mono Creek reservoir, pipeline
crossing south fork of San Joaquin River, Camps 71, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83, and 85;
Mono-Bear siphon, backfilled siphon and pipeline, tunnels, pipeline installations,
outlets of Mono and Bear Tunnels, intake of Bear Tunnel at Camp 86, Intake of Mono
tunnel, Big Creek siphon, duplex valve on Huntington-Pitman-Shaver conduit and tunnel,
intake for conduit at Dam 2, Warehouse, Mess hall and Hospital at Camp 73.
Box 40, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Big Creek scenery and Huntington Lake Lodge
1920 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Big Creek Scenery and Huntington Lake Lodge. Photographs around Big Creek, Powerhouse
No. 1, Stevenson Creek Camp, Basin Laundry near Camp 3, Pitman Creek, Big Creek Hotel,
Indian Hut, Dawn Lumber Mill and Yard, winter scenes, Nellie Lake frozen, Kaiser
Crest, Home Camp Creek, Big Falls on Pitman Creek, corral at Cattleman's Camp,
Rancheria Creek, Huntington Lake Lodge and Cottages, boating.
Box 41, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Huntington Lake Lodge
approximately 1915
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Huntington Lake Lodge. Views of mountain scenery, recreation (fishing, boating,
horseback riding, picnics, the lake, lodge guests, cart rides, croquet court, snow
recreation, sledding, snowshoe hiking.
Box 42, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Early Big Creek and other Edison facilities
1911 - 1919
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Substations; Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2 construction and penstock
construction, Huntington Lodge and Huntington Lake, heavy snowfall, break in
Powerhouse 1 penstock joint, Construction of Dam 1, 2, and 4; incline railroad,
railroad locomotives, Construction of Big Creek transmission line; Magunden
Substation; Kern transmission line poles, line and railroad wash out at Arroyo Seco;
Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aqueduct and Powerhouse; Pacific Light and Power
vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa Powerhouse interior; Highgrove forebay and
Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley
Powerhouse; Mentone Powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse.
Box 43, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Accompanying Report on possible future hydroelectric-electric
developments in vicinity
n.d.
Scope and Contents
Photographs with detailed typescript captions accompanying a Big Creek survey for
potential future projects, including weirs on Stevenson Creek, Pitman Creek, Balsam
Creek, Jackaboy Creek, and Music Creek; Red Lake, Florence Lake area, diversion south
fork of San Joaquin River near Blaney Meadows, Jackass Dike, Bear Creek, Mono Creek,
Mammoth Pool, Vermilion Valley dam site, Italian Bar, and Devil's Gorge.
Box 44, Ser. 3
Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1, Maintenance
1927 - 1951
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Powerhouse 1 and penstocks, Dam 4 sluicing, switchrack, switchboards in Powerhouse 1,
Unit 1 fire, bucket strain-gauge test, bucket molds, bucket repairs, lapping journals,
coil replacements in stator, rebuilding Unit 4, removing rotor for repair, break in
penstock at Powerhouse 1, debris and boulders that washed into the powerhouse after
penstock break, and details of ripped penstock.
Box 45, Ser. 3
Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2 and 2A, Maintenance
1928 - 1951
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Exterior shots of Powerhouse No. 2, full shot of Powerhouse 2 and 2A, generator floor
in Powerhouse 2, Unit 6 bucket failure (Powerhouse 2) with close-ups of damage, damage
to overhead crane from flying No. 10 bucket, Powerhouse 2-2A switch rack, Dam 5 intake
trash rack cleaner, water rheostat test, transporting 220kV transformers, gate house,
penstock "Y"s, rotor installation, Powerhouse 2.
Box 46, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Progress photos of Powerhouse No. 3
1945 - 1952
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction photographs at Big Creek No. 3, including operators cottages, warehouse
and garage, gauging station, sewage treatment plant, installation of 4th unit in
Powerhouse 3, constructing machine shop.
Box 47, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Scenic photos taken by C. Laval
n.d.
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Scenic photographs at Big Creek in the Sierra Nevada mountains, including Kerckhoff
Dome in snow, photographic survey team with camera equipment in the snow; surveyors'
log cabin, interior shots of surveyors around fireplace, men and women in the snow,
people on toboggans, horse-drawn sleds, snowshoes, and cross-country skis, snow packed
trees, Huntington Lodge buried in snow, Powerhouse No. 1 in snow.
Box 48, Ser. 3
San Joaquin & Eastern Railroad, Huntington Lake and Huntington Lake
Lodge
approximately 1935
Scope and Contents
Xerox copies of San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad Photographs at Big Creek, including
Huntington Lake and Huntington Lodge, Shaver Lake Lumber Company and Railroad, and Big
Creek rail operations.
Box 49, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Construction of Dam No. 6, San Joaquin River
1921 - 1923
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album with a printed introductory page detailing the construction of Big Creek Dam
No. 6 on the San Joaquin River, including dam site, abutments, drilling test cores in
riverbed, and building the bypass flume.
Box 50, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Construction of Dam No. 6, San Joaquin River (copy 2)
1921 - 1923
Scope and Contents
Duplicate of Box 49 album.
Box 51, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Hydro-electric project photo postcard album
1910
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album of photographic postcards of Big Creek and its infrastructure, as well as other
hydroelectric projects, including Powerhouse 1 and 2, exciter, gate control, generator
floor, Cascada cottages, Dam No. 4, San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad train nearing
Cascada, train coming into Cascada station, Bear Creek, Pitman Creek, Magunden
Substation; Kaweah No. 3 Switchboard; Toronto Power Co. - Niagara Powerhouse generator
floor, Transformer Station, No. 8 Governor, Switchboards, switchrack, magnetic relays,
forebay; Front Street Power Station.
Box 52, Ser. 3
Big Creek Hydro-Electric Project; San Joaquin Valley editors and publishers
touring site
1947
Scope and Contents
Photographs of newspapers editors and publishers touring Big Creek facilities
September 9-10. Photographs are accompanied by printed caption. Album has "D. H.
Redinger" gold stamped on the cover.
Box 53, Ser. 3
Big Creek: Early Big Creek construction; Eagle Rock Substation
1912 - 1916
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Eagle Rock Substation, including monthly progress views from clearing
land to completion, 1913-1914; Erection of Big Creek transmission lines through
Newhall, Saugus, Bakersfield, Castaic, Sunland Valley, Verdugo Wash, Tujunga Wash,
1913; Telephone Line North of Newhall showing tree on Gregg property, 1915; Suspension
Insulators on Tejon Ranch, 1915; Transmission lines on rancher property, Bakersfield
area, 1915; Magunden Substation, 1916; Big Creek construction views, 1913.
Box 54, Ser. 3
Big Creek projects and Colorado River survey
1922 - 1925
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of 1922 Colorado River Survey with typescript captions by "E.C.L.",
including Hall's Crossing, Rock Island, Hole in the Wall, San Juan River, San Juan Dam
site, Aztec Creek, Rainbow Natural Bridge, Girand Dam site, Sentinel Rock Dam site,
Boulder Canyon Dam site, Black Canyon Dam site, Pierce's Ferry, Grand Wash Canyon,
Hualapai Dam site, Virgin Canyon Dam site, Callville Dam site, El Dorado Dam site; Big
Creek projects include Huntington Lake Dam 1 fourth unit of Powerhouse 1, Florence
Lake Dam construction, tunnel construction, and diversion dam at Camp 63.
Box 55, Ser. 3
Big Creek projects and Colorado River survey
1925 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Big Creek Project - Penstock sections, Powerhouse No. 1 (Unit 4 installation),
Powerhouse No. 2, Florence Lake Dam construction (framing for concrete), Camp
Hospitals, Cookhouse, Warehouse, Recreation Hall, Mess Halls, tunnel excavations,
Construction Camps (No. 21, No. 64, No. 72, No. 73); Photographs of Colorado River
Survey of Sierra Watershed, including Evolution Lake, Garnet Lake, Wanda Lake,
Thousand Island Lake, Heart Lake, Desolation Lake, N. Goddard Lake, and Sapphire Lake;
Kern River No. 1; Transmission tower construction; [Big Bear dam construction];
Huntington Lake Dam 1; Shaver Dam construction.
Box 56, Ser. 3
Big Creek construction
1926 - 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Big Creek, including tunnel excavation, Bear Dam, Mono Dam, Mono-Bear siphon
construction; Florence Lake Dam construction, Ward Tunnel spilling; Shaver Lake Dam
construction, concrete mixing plant, first concrete, screening plant, Quarry,
Powerhouse 2A construction, Stevenson Test Dam construction; Gauging San Joaquin
River, Herminghaus Ranch.
Box 57, Ser. 3
Big Creek and Kern River
approximately 1904 - 1911
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Coyote Lake at head of Big Creek; Big Creek [cascade above Powerhouse1 site],
Stevenson Creek Falls, Thousand Island Lake; Borel Powerhouse and cottages; Borel
interior with the original 5 Pelton Waterwheel unit], Kern Substation, Indian
Substation, Newhall Substation; Azusa hydroelectric Plant; Sierra hydroelectric Plant;
Mentone hydroelectric Plant; Redondo Steam Plant.
Box 58, Ser. 3
Big Creek, Mill Creek, Kern River, etc.
1920 - 1923
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Big Creek rivers and streams; Powerhouse 2 interior; Cascada general office;
Huntington Lake Lodge, Huntington Lake and Dam 1, Shaver Lake, Powerhouse No. 2,
Powerhouse No. 8 interior and exterior, Dam 6 and Intake 3, Powerhouse No. 3; Vestal,
Eagle Rock Substation, Laguna Bell Substation; Mill Creek No. 1 exterior and interior;
Kern River No. 3 exterior and interior, Kern River No. 1 interior; Long Beach Steam
Plant No. 1; Camp on Eagle-Bell Line near San Gabriel; Edison Executive portraits; and
Edison General Office at 3rd and Broadway, Los Angeles.
Box 59, Ser. 3
Employee album of Big Creek staff and operations
approximately 1924
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Various views of Big Creek staff and operations with handwritten captions by an
Edison employee who appears throughout as "myself" or "4717," the number that appears
on his belt buckle (see p. 53 and p. 16) Portrait of a woman named Marie Riba on
cover. Snapshot photographs of employees at work, on outings and hikes in the
mountains, on a honeymoon automobile trip to Santa Barbara and San Diego, and at
parties.
Box 60, Ser. 3
Personal album of snapshots showing area around Big Creek
approximately 1924
Scope and Contents
Personal album of snapshots showing area around Big Creek, including Pittman Falls,
Huntington Lake, snow recreation, Dam 4, Nellie Lake, winter scenes, family life ,
Jerry Dwyer's dog team, Dam 1, Yosemite, and assorted vacation images including
automobile touring in the Southwest. There is one photograph of a man standing in the
snow with a camera.
Box 61, Ser. 3
Early construction at Big Creek, Tule River and Kern River
1912 - 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album compiled by Edison employee containing professional and amateur photographs of
Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse No.
2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at
Powerhouse No. 1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at Powerhouse 1, penstock
assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek Powerhouse 2; construction of
Powerhouse No. 8, constructing road to Powerhouse 3, and Tule Powerhouse.
Box 62, Ser. 3
Employee album: Perry Hornsby's family photos and Big Creek
n.d.
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including views
of compressor house, sled dog team, Camp 33, 35, 38, and 61, General Office,
Huntington Lodge, mess hall, Stevenson Creek Falls, Shaver Sawmill, San Joaquin and
Eastern Climax locomotive No. 107, hoist; construction at Dam 5, Dam 6, Intake 3,
Powerhouse 3, Powerhouse 8, diver at intake, Penstock blow-out at Powerhouse 8; Kern
River No. 3 construction.
Box 63, Ser. 3
Employee album of Big Creek
approximately 1924
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including
Powerhouse 3 control room, Cascada Drug Store, Accounting Office, Mess Hall,
Powerhouse3 generator floor, Camps 63 and 65, School House, Clubhouse/dormitory,
Powerhouse 1 in snow, Dam 6, Powerhouse 3, Huntington Lake Lodge, Hospital, sled dog
team, tunnel work, and Florence Lake.
Box 64, Ser. 3
Employee album: Kingsley Dutton's family photos; Big Creek and Kern
River
approximately 1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photograph album of Edison employee, Kingsley A. Dutton, including pictures of Borel
Powerhouse and interiors; Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1; Dam 4; Cascada; incline railway
and hoist; Kern River No. 1; Kern River No. 3; Tule Powerhouse; Eagle Rock Substation;
and Fairview Dam. Personal snapshots include views of Glendale, Griffith Park, early
motorcycles, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and a Boston terrier.
Box 65, Ser. 3
Kern River No. 1
1902 - 1907
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Kern River No. 1, including site for Democrat Dam; Dam construction and drainage
tower; intake; dam spilling; Construction at Camp 4; Kern River Canyon, hospital,
tunnel workers, tunnel portal, concrete mixing plant, concrete flume, tunnel
automobiles; Camp 1, penstock construction, branch pipes, Powerhouse construction,
machinery transport to site, assembly of units in powerhouse, placing "Y" piece, main
water valve needle, exciter needle, impulse wheel and buckets, transformers, tailrace
construction, original spillway, towers and erect insulators, transmission line;
Tejon, Castaic and Fernando Substations, Los Angeles No. 3 Steam Plant.
Box 66, Ser. 3
Personnel: Groups, portraits
1913 - 1916
Scope and Contents
Group portraits of Edison employees at various facilities, including, Engineering
group (all identified) at 2nd and Boylston office, drafting group, Long Beach Steam
Station supervisors; Transmission and Distribution line crews; plant workers; local
office workers, General Office workers; motorcycle crew; light bulb replacement crew
on motorcycles and off; salesmen; women at the beach; garage workers; executives in
the desert (Benjamin F. Pearson in one photograph).
Box 67, Ser. 3
Southern California Edison automobiles, trucks, and other
vehicles
1914 - 1916
Scope and Contents
Southern California Edison automobiles, trucks, and other vehicles, including pole
caddies, trailers, custom tunnel car, transformer trailer, horse carts, and main
garage
Box 68, Ser. 3
Transmission lines: Vincent, Lighthipe-Chino, Long Beach, Big
Tujunga
1912 - 1928
Scope and Contents
Transmission Lines, including Brea Camp on the Lighthipe-Chino 66kV transmission
line, mess hall, kitchen, hospital tent; Long Beach-Lighthipe-Laguna Bell transmission
line, including multi-circuit tower construction, driving piles for tower foundations,
collapsed Long Beach transmission line tower; Vincent 220kV transmission line,
including road building, Construction Camps 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, and 10, Camp 6 kitchen and
mess hall, Maple Canyon, Big Tujunga, transporting tower materials, tractors pulling
graders, pack trains, building towers, pulling cable, cable splicing.
Box 69, Ser. 3
Substations, A to K
1912 - 1928
Scope and Contents
Substations (A to K) - Arrdo, Castaic, Capistrano, Charnock, Cudahy, Claremont,
Chino, Colton, Dalton, Eagle Rock, Goodrich, Gould, Inglewood, Irvine, Katella, Long
Beach, and Puente; four shots of flood damage at Mill Creek.
Box 70, Ser. 3
Substations, L to M
1912 - 1931
Scope and Contents
Substations (L to M) - Laguna Bell, La Habra, Lordsburg, La Fresa, Lomita, Lighthipe,
Los Angeles (No. 1 No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6), Magunden, Manhattan, Malibu,
Montebello, MacNeil and Mojave.
Box 71, Ser. 3
Substations, N to Z
1910 - 1930
Scope and Contents
Substations (N to W) - Newmark, Newhall, Orange, Ocean Park, Santa Ana, Palms,
Sawtelle, Puente, Perry, Pasadena, Redlands, Redondo, Redlands Ice House, Redlands
Junction, Ramona, Charnock, Rector, Santa Fe Springs, Saugus, Sierra Madre, San Pedro,
Garden Grove, Slauson, San Antonio, Torrance, Vestal, and Wilmington.
Box 72, Ser. 3
Miscellaneous powerhouses: Los Angeles, Azusa, Lytle Creek, Fontana, Kern
River No. 1
1910 - 1922
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Los Angeles No. 3 Powerhouse; Azusa hydroelectric Plant; Lytle Creek Powerhouse;
Fontana Powerhouse; Kern River No. 1 Powerhouse.
Box 73, Ser. 3
Edison facilities and operations in Santa Barbara, California
1914 - 1916
Scope and Contents
Santa Barbara Bath House; Santa Barbara Steam Plant; Santa Barbara and Suburban
Railway Company business office and rail car interior; Santa Barbara Gas Plant, Santa
Barbara Local Customer Service Office.
Box 74, Ser. 3
Old electric appliances. Photographs by G. Haven Bishop
n.d.
Scope and Contents
Photographs of appliances including, Iron, Cooker, Toaster, "El Grillo" Grill,
Percolator, Chaffing dish, Teapot, "El Eggo" Egg cooker, "El Comfo" [hot plate and bed
warmer], Heating pad, "El Stovo" hot plate, electric ovens, electric suction device
[vacuum], electric vibrators, electric hair irons. "G. Haven Bishop" stamped on front
cover.
Box 75, Ser. 3
Borel, Kern River No. 3, Santa Ana River No. 1, Mill Creek, PL&P
construction photos from 1903, and Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.)
1903 - 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Borel flume and canal work (mostly un-numbered), Borel headworks,
Borel Powerhouse, Kern River No. 3 construction, Santa Ana River No. 1 powerhouse,
Santa Ana River 1 intake, Santa Ana River 1 settling basin, Santa Ana River No. 2
powerhouse, Mill Creek No. 1 Powerhouse, Mill Creek No. 3 intake, Mill Creek cottages,
Santa Ana River No. 3 flume construction, Pacific Light & Power construction
Photographs from 1903, Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.), Mill Creek 2 and 3
Powerhouse, Santa Ana River flood damage.
Box 76, Ser. 3
Miscellaneous transmission towers
1912 - 1923
Scope and Contents
Transmission Lines, including Los Angeles No. 3-Long Beach; Long Beach-Colton
(collapsed tower); Kern River; Santa Barbara transmission line; Tejon Substation; Kern
River No. 3-Vestal; Eagle-Bell; Big Creek transmission line; raising Big Creek Towers;
Miscellaneous non-Edison towers.
Box 77, Ser. 3
Maps, charts, drawings
1908 - 1917
Scope and Contents
Photographs of maps, charts and drawings depicting vault covers, hydroelectric
machinery, Kern River No. 3 project maps, Ocean Park Gas Plant plot plan, Kern River
No. 3 Powerhouse proposals, distribution maps, transmission maps, customer
correspondence, and switching diagrams.
Box 78, Ser. 3
Maps, charts, drawings
1911 - 1916
Scope and Contents
Photographs of maps, charts and drawings depicting organization charts, instruments,
load charts, revenue curves, peak demand, hydroelectric development, Edison properties
timeline, transmission systems, hydroelectric and steam plant statistics, district
service records, comparison charts, street lighting tables, ammonia charts, calcium
brine charts, and wire tables.
Box 79, Ser. 3
Non-Edison projects including Pit River and Exchequer
1912 - 1920
Scope and Contents
Long Beach Gas Plant; Inner Harbor Gas Plant; Ventura County Power Co., including
Oxnard Storehouse, Ventura Powerhouse and Substation, Oxnard Stable, Oxnard Steam
Plant and Substation, Santa Paula Substation, Oxnard Pumping Plant, Oxnard Gas
Compressor House, Piru Substation, distribution, Ventura Gas Plant; Santa Margarita
Quarry, Pit River Projects, Eagle-Bell transmission line, Hetch Hetchey transmission
line and Powerhouse, Exchequer Dam and Powerhouse.
Box 80, Ser. 3
Neon signs and advertisement lighting at theaters and businesses; night
lighting
1911 - 1933
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Edison Stores, Garages, and Offices, including Alhambra, Long Beach, Los Angeles,
Pasadena; Destruction from St. Francis Dam break; Night lighting of storefronts and
advertisements for theatres and various businesses.
Box 81, Ser. 3
Miscellaneous views of power consumers and facilities, including Borax
Mine
1913 - 1917
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous views of power consumers and facilities, including Borax Mine; ice
plants and workers icing cold storage freight cars; B and M Cafeteria; Puente High
School, Amazonia Apartments; pumping plants; Craig Shipbuilding Plant; Anita Baldwin
residence and other large residences; manufacturing plants for hydroelectric
components; Warman Steel Casting Co.; Union Tool Co.; Bath House; Portable Substation,
erecting flagpole at Exposition Park; Address-o-graph machines; pole yards; company
garage; Irrigation; Anaheim Municipal Electric Plant; Los Angeles Times
switchboard.
Box 82, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1
1910 - 1911
Scope and Contents
Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: early construction shots
showing pile driving for foundation, stack construction, intake excavation, overviews
from bridge.
Box 83, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1
July 1911 - January 1912
Scope and Contents
Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: assembly turbine No. 1,
generator room, boiler room, transformer house, overview from top of [Salt Lake]
Bridge.
Box 84, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1
1910 - May 1913
Scope and Contents
Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: boiler installation, pile
driving, train derailment at steam station, specimens of marine growth from intake
tunnel, overviews of Steam Station, extension of Plant No. 1, dismantling old Long
Beach Gas Plant, foundation work for Unit No. 2.
Box 85, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1
May - June 1913
Scope and Contents
Construction of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1, showing framing stages during
construction of steam plant and equipment installation at the plant.
Box 86, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1
November - December 1913
Scope and Contents
Construction of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1, showing later construction of the
plant, interior shots, control rooms, and transformers. Construction of support
facilities, cooling water intakes and conduits. Expansion of Steam Plant for
additional units.
Box 87, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1
February - March 1914
Scope and Contents
End of construction of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1, including turbine installations,
control rooms, transformers, cooling water system, plant start-up; Beginning
construction for Plant No. 2, including excavation, driving piles for Plant 2
foundation.
Box 88, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 2
April - August 1924
Scope and Contents
Building foundations for new units, pouring concrete in foundation forms from tower,
pouring concrete for additional unit in Plant No. 1, installing fourth boiler bank in
Plant No. 1, Plant 2 machine shop, discharge tunnel, steel framework going up, first
aid station, and concrete being poured into wall forms.
Box 89, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 2
August 1924 - August 1925
Scope and Contents
Construction Photographs of Plant No. 2 at Long Beach Steam Station.
Box 90, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Plant No. 2
September 1925 - September 1926
Scope and Contents
Construction Photographs of Plant No. 2 at Long Beach Steam Station. [Several of the
8x10 photographs in this album are labeled as "Plant No. 3" construction. These
photographs are actually showing the four unit expansion of Plant No. 2. The first
foundation pile for Plant No. 3 was driven on February 5, 1927.]
Box 91, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station No. 2 and No. 3
April 1926 - April 1927
Scope and Contents
Condenser installation, stacks, south elevation poured, turbo installations, turbo
room construction, boiler room construction, bricking the boilers, exterior shot
complete with 8 stacks on Plant 2, control room. Piles placed for Plant 3
construction, moving above ground fuel storage tank by floating.
Box 92, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3
April - October 1927
Scope and Contents
Construction Photographs of Plant No. 3 at Long Beach Steam Station.
Box 93, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3
October - April 1928
Scope and Contents
Construction Photographs of Plant No. 3 at Long Beach Steam Station.
Box 94, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3
April 1928 - February 1929
Scope and Contents
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 turbo installation, Boiler No. 50, laying 15" gas
main, driving piles for Unit No. 11, take-off towers, towers at channel crossing,
installing transformers and oil switches, switching garden, [cooling water] intake,
gauge board, switchboard, station overviews, turbine deck, boiler interior, defective
pump, evaporators, chemistry lab, fuel oil pump room, exciter, piles ready for
steel.
Box 95, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3
February - August 1929
Scope and Contents
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 operational shots, turbine maintenance and repairs,
broken blades on turbine stages, deposits on turbine blades, and continued
construction for second half of Plant 3.
Box 96, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3
August 1929 - June 1930
Scope and Contents
Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 construction, including superheater, header, boiler
assembly, skylight over Turbo Room, flue opening, stacks, view of all 3 plants,
installing 83 ton transformers, Turbine Room interior, circulating water pumps,
condenser installation, boiler interior, aerials of station, concrete girder
reinforcement, exciter, oil switches, switch garden, control house, screen wells.
Box 97, Ser. 3
Long Beach Steam Station construction, Big Creek, Mill Creek, Santa Ana
River, Big Bear Lake
approximately 1909 - 1914
Scope and Contents
Long Beach Steam Station No. 1 construction, interior of generator floor; man with
divining rods; Kern River No. 3, including headquarters camp, plant site, river,
Fairview Dam with fish ladder; Big Creek, including Huntington Lake, Huntington Lake
Lodge, Dam 4, cottages, Powerhouse No. 8, road construction to Powerhouse No. 3; Santa
Barbara facilities, including Substations, car barn, steam plants; Mill Creek No. 1,
Santa Ana River No. 2 flowline, Santa Ana River No. 1 intake and siphon; Union Power
Co. hydroelectric projects, such as multiple arch dam at Big Bear lake, tunnels and
adits.
Box 98, Ser. 3
Big Creek construction, Kern River, Redondo Steam Station, etc.
1912 - 1916
Scope and Contents
Azusa Line; Big Creek construction - Dam 2, towers, Powerhouse 2, Richgrove Patrol
Sta.; Borel change to Pelton-Francis horizontal turbines, break in canal, Bodfish
Flume, repairs at Schoolhouse Cut, Profanity Flume; San Bernardino "C" Street
Substation, Long Beach Steam Plant, Santa Ana River 2; Fillmore Substation; PLandP
trucks and wagons; Huntington Beach Substation; East Kern Line; Kern Canal, settling
basin, Borel Powerhouse; Mentone - siphon, flume break, fish screen, intake; L.A. City
Power Dev. Plant 1; Pedley Powerhouse - break in canal; Redondo Steam Plant; Sierra
Powerhouse; Stone Castle, Vernon Substation, Santa Paula Substation, Monolith
Substation, and Eagle Rock Substation.
Box 99, Ser. 3
Borel Powerhouse and water diversions; San Antonio Canyon, Kern River, and
Southern California
1909 - 1916
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Sierra penstock break, new pipeline, intake house, diversion - powerhouse; Borel
Powerhouse and water diversions, original Pelton-Doble turbines, and change over to
horizontal Pelton-Francis turbines; various substations; Meter testing; Mentone
hydroelectric project; Pedley hydroelectric project; Casing Head Gasoline plant; Old
Redondo Steam Plant construction and facilities; Stone Castle plant after fire;
Ventura Power Co. steam plants, gas plant and substations; Pasadena; Wash at
Sunnyslope substation; Water plant at San Bernardino
Box 100, Ser. 3
Kaweah hydro-electric plants 1 and 2; Mount Whitney Power Co. maps and photos
of hydro-electric development on the Kaweah River
approximately 1902
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album belonging to Robert McF. Doble, Consulting Engineer, and containing a map and
photographs of hydroelectric development on the Kaweah River. Photographs include
proposed site for Powerhouse No. 2, Middle Fork Kaweah River at National Park line,
Atwell's Mill, Upper and Lower Monarch Lakes, cut at headworks of ditch for Plant No.
2, East Fork Kaweah River at National Park line, Junction of Marble and Middle Forks
of Kaweah River, Eagle Lake, Lady Franklin Lake, Silver Lake. A typescript index
appears at the end of the album. "Robert McF. Doble, Construction Engineer" stamped on
cover.
Box 101, Ser. 3
Kern River near Kernville; Pacific Light and Power Co.
approximately 1902
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Kern River near Kernville showing intake of Pacific Light and Power Co. for Borel
Powerhouse; gauging bridge at Pacific Light & Power powerhouse site; Kern River
No. 1 site including Edison Electric Company power plant 1, penstock site for Pacific
Light and Power Co, site for Edison Electric penstock and diversion, location of
Edison Electric tunnels, tunnel "Upper 18," and Democrat Springs gauging station.
Box 102, Ser. 3
Mount Whitney Power Co. photographs of Visalia and Porterville in Tulare
County, California
1904 - 1905
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Mount Whitney Power Company album including views of the Visalia office, Courthouse,
Carnegie Library, High School, Spaulding home; Tulare Substation; Porterville
substation, waterworks, town, agriculture, packing houses; Exeter Substation, Packing
House, Hotel; Tule River; Lindsay orange orchard and pumping plant, waterworks,
transmission line; Lemon Cove; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 1, Intake, flume, Dam and intake
for Plant 2, Flume 1 for plant 2, canal, poor flume construction, reservoir, pipeline,
penstock, Plant 2 construction, dam construction and photographs at Monarch Lake, Lady
Franklin Lake, Silver Lake and Eagle Lake.
Box 103, Ser. 3
Kern River Plant of Pacific Light and Power Company
1904
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Borel Powerhouse on Kern River, including canals, flumes, construction camp near
canal, work crew concreting canal walls and excavating canal path, interiors of
powerhouse and switchboard.
Box 104, Ser. 3
Kern River Project; Kings River
approximately 1909
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Kings River Powerhouse No. 1 and cottages, headworks, Lucas Creek Flume, Cow Creek
flume, Borel Powerhouse with 5 penstocks, Isabella (1907); Kings River No. 1 Water
Appropriation Notice, Kings River No. 2 - Camp near Mill Creek, posted notice,
material storage, warehouse at Tunnel 9; Kings River No. 3 - South Fork Gorge and
Intake site, Crown Valley, Little Brush Creek, construction road, Water Appropriation
Notice; Kings River No. 4 - Tehachapi Basin, lumber yards, water appropriation notice
at intake site, P.D. Plant and spillway at mouth of Kern Canyon.
Box 105, Ser. 3
The Edison Electric Company, facilities and operations
1902 - 1907
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album cover embossed with title "Edison Electric Company." Photographs of EEC
facilities and operations, including Los Angeles Powerhouses No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3;
EEC general office construction; Pasadena office; Santa Ana River No. 1 construction
and operation; Edison Electric Co. plant in Pomona; Mill Creek No. 1 interiors; Santa
Ana office; Pumping Plants and substations in Orange County; Redlands plant and
office; Mill Creek 3 construction; Long Beach electric plant and gas plant; Santa
Monica engine No. 1; San Pedro gas plant and office; Santa Monica Office, Steam Plant,
and Gas Plant; Santa Barbara plants and offices; Long Beach plants and offices; San
Bernardino; Colton; Kern River; Lytle Creek construction; Puente Substation and
cottage; Ontario No. 1; Kern No. 1 construction; Castaic Substation; and Fernando
Substation
Box 106, Ser. 3
Miscellaneous properties of Southern California Edison by the California
State Board of Equalization
1940 - 1941
Scope and Contents
California State Board of Equalization photographs of miscellaneous Edison properties
taken by Inspection Field Crews. Edison properties are in Los Angeles, Orange, and San
Bernardino Counties. There is a typescript index at the front of the album arranged
alphabetically by property and each photograph is identified with a detailed
typescript caption.
Box 107, Ser. 3
Construction of Barre-Lighthipe Transmission Line and others
1940- 1942
Scope and Contents
Construction of Barre-Lighthipe Transmission Line; Eagle Rock-Gould Transmission Line
[replacing single circuit towers with double-circuit towers]; Chino-Laguna Bell
transmission line; Pisgah Substation construction, and Boulder-Chino transmission
line.
Box 108, Ser. 3
Construction of Transmission Lines of Northern Capistrano
1940 - 1945
Scope and Contents
Construction of Hayfield-Chino Transmission Line, Boulder-Chino Transmission Line,
Chino-Capistrano transmission line.
Box 109, Ser. 3
Colorado River and Herminghaus Ranch
1924
Scope and Contents
Core drilling at Kelly Dam site, Arizona and Nevada abutments, Rainbow Bridge natural
arch; survey photographs and gauging stations at Herminghaus Ranch.
Box 110, Ser. 3
Edison Shop and Test Division photographs
October 1947 - July 1948
Scope and Contents
Radio Repeater Station, Motorola equipment in Edison truck, Antennae at Highgrove
Substation, main transmitter-receiver, radio operation desk, and lab. Test Meter
table, bridal shower, J. H. Thompson retirement, vestal condenser, transformers, meter
testing equipment, bushing failures, condenser at Eagle Rock Substation.
Box 111, Ser. 3
Laguna-Bell Substation photographs
1923 - 1954
Scope and Contents
Laguna Bell Edison News article (September 1954) and Powerhouses of the
substation.
Box 112, Ser. 3
Photographs of Edison customer pumping plants
approximately 1936
Scope and Contents
Xerox copies of photographs taken in 1936 of customer pumping plants converted to
electric motor drives. The pumping plants are mostly being used in agriculture
applications, and the photographs were taken to promote electric-powered ground-water
pumping.
Box 113, Ser. 3
Hoover Dam ceremony, aerial views, etc.
approximately 1930 - 1936
Scope and Contents
Hoover Dam, ceremony, Lake Mead, aerials of Colorado River, Transmission Towers,
Generator floor, Transformers, assembly of units.
Box 114, Ser. 3
Construction of Etiwanda Steam Station
1951
Scope and Contents
Mounted photographs with captions of construction of Etiwanda Steam Station.
Box 115, Ser. 3
Silver Lake; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah River; others
1899 - 1915
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Silver Lake, Kaweah Powerhouse No. 2; Kaweah Powerhouse No. 3 and
reservoir; Tule Powerhouse and flume; Visalia Steam Plant; Tulare Steam Plant;
Substations: Tulare, Venice Hill, Tipton, Terra Bella, Delano, Exeter, Lindsay,
Porterville, Success, Sugar, Packwood, Woodville, Earlimart, Strathmore, and
Sausalito; Visalia garage and office; and Tulare Office and Storeroom.
Box 116, Ser. 3
Mount Whitney Power Co.: substations and powerhouses
1900 - 1912
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Lindsay Substation; Delano Substation; Visalia Steam Plant; Construction of Kaweah
No. 1, No. 2, and Kaweah No. 3; Wolverton; Visalia Garage; Tulare Substation and
Waterworks; Mount Whitney Power Co. general office in Visalia; Tule diversion dam and
Intake, Marble Fork Camp, and construction of Tule flumes, canals, forebay, and
powerhouse.
Box 117, Ser. 3
Mill Creek (copy prints)
n.d.
Scope and Contents
Contact copy prints of Mill Creek 2-3 intake and powerhouse and other; Engineering
drawings of hydroelectric set-ups, insulators etc., many are prints from screened
negatives.
Box 118, Ser. 3
Employee album of R. H. Cates - personal and project photos
n.d.
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album of personal and project snapshots of R. H. Cates. Views in Logan, Utah, Kern
River, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, and scenes of camping, hunting, riding,
boating, fishing, pumping plant, mining operations or tunnel excavation, Big Bear
Dam.
Box 119, Ser. 3
Employee album of Roy K. Wanner - snapshots of powerhouse at Kernville,
California
1919 - 1927
Scope and Contents
Snapshots of powerhouse and system at Kernville, California under construction, or
the Kern River No. 3 project, and the Borel Powerhouse. Roy K. Wanner worked for
Edison from 1919-1927.
Box 120, Ser. 3
Employee album of T. H. Hotchkiss, Operating Department
approximately 1930s
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Bryce and Zion parks, June Lake, Gem Lake, Gull Lake, Steam Plant
Photographs, family Photographs, Catalina, [Huntington Library, Palm Canyon, Long
Beach earthquake], USS Constitution, desert scenes, Steam Plant control room, Hoover
Dam (under construction and during operation), Long Beach Steam Station, assorted
photographs of California Missions, ocean liner "Empress of Britain", seaplane, steam
Locomotives, US Navy ships.
Box 121, Ser. 3
Florence Lake tunnel construction
1925
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clippings on the construction of Florence Lake Tunnel [Ward Tunnel]
collected from newspapers in 27 states and one from a paper in London, England.
Box 122, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
120)
1923 - 1927
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen depicting Plant No. 1, Steam Plant, Substation,
Powerhouse No. 3, The Esmeralda in Aurora.
Box 123, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
121)
1922 - 1925
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen, including Grant Lake, Grant Lake Dam
construction and Camp, Saddlebags Dam, Silver Lake Plant, Powerhouse No. 1 and No. 3 -
Lee Vining, South Lake, June Lake, Rush Creek Falls, Tioga Road, Mono Lake, Packard
bi-plane, Silent film crew shooting The Golden Princess in 1925, Bishop Creek, Owens
River Plant.
Box 124, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
122)
1923 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen, including Mono Lake, Grant Lake, Laws,
Locomotive and train of the "Holton Inter-urban Railway" owned by SSP Co.; El Centro
Ice plant; SDGandE Company Steam plant; Long Beach Oil Fields. Handwritten note at
front of album says "Ben Johannsen, Book 4 of 9"
Box 125, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
123)
1922 - 1924
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen, including Lee Vining Creek, Rush Creek, Black
Lake, Topaz Lake, Owens River Plant, pipe construction.
Box 126, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
124)
1923 - 1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen, including Grant Lake, Silver Lake, Mono Lake,
Saddle Bag, Rhinedollar Lake, Mount Dana, Benton Road, Rush Creek, Lake Agnew, June
Lake, Powerhouse No. 3 Pipeline, control station, Lee Vining Creek Camp, Rainbow Camp,
Intake No. 3, Town of Benton.
Box 127, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
125)
1924
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen, including Benton Road, Lee Vining Creek,
construction camp, Tioga Road, Tioga Lake, Saddlebag Lake, Agnew Lake, June Lake, Twin
Lakes, Mammoth, Balance Rock, Intake No. 3, Mount Dana, Powerhouse No. 1, Francis
turbine in Powerhouse No. 3.
Box 128, Ser. 3
Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol
126)
1924
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Snapshots compiled by Ben Johannsen, including hauling equipment for Powerhouse,
trucks hauling power poles, Silver Lake Power line, Agnew Dam and reservoir, Silver
Lake Plant, pipe for Owens River Plant, site before Powerhouse No. 1 was built,
Powerhouse No. 1 construction.
Box 129, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Company
facilities
n.d.
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Unidentified snapshots depicting facilities and buildings in territory operated by
Southern Sierras Power Company, including views of a pole yard, field crews
constructing a wood pole transmission line in the desert, Southern Sierras Power
Company portable office trailers being moved into construction camps. Photographer:
Southern Sierras Power Company.
Box 130, Ser. 3
San Bernardino Substation construction photographs and report
1928
Scope and Contents
Photograph report on the construction of the San Bernardino Substation and Operating
building by Southern Sierras Power Company in 1928. Photographer: Southern Sierras
Power Company.
Box 131, Ser. 3
Owens Valley and Sierra Nevada facilities
approximately 1912
Scope and Contents
Snapshots of facilities and buildings in Tonopah, Rhyolite, Bishop, Big Pine, Lone
Pine, Randsberg, Southern Sierras Power Co., Perris, San Jacinto, Corona, Goldfield,
Elsinore, San Bernardino Steam Plant. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power
Company.
Box 132, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric
Projects (vol 130)
approximately 1915
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of hydroelectric facilities at Mill Creek (Lundy); Shell Ranch; Saddlebag
Camp; Cain Irrigation Co.; Rhinedollar Camp; Lee Vining Creek: Powerhouse 1 and
Powerhouse 3; Cain Ranch; Rush Creek, Silver Lake; Benton Station; Owens River Gorge;
Adams Main Plant and Auxiliary; Abelour Ranch, Red Hill Ranch; Turner Ranch; South
Hillside Ranch; dwellings at Lake Sabrina; Bishop Creek No. 1 buildings, and Intake 2
buildings. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
Box 133, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric
Projects (vol 131)
approximately 1915
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Hydroelectric facilities, cottages, and other buildings at Bishop Creek Plant 2,
Plant 3, Plant 4, Plant 5, Control Station and Plant 6; Facilities, buildings and
offices at Laws, Big Pine, Independence, Lone Pine, Inyo-Kern, Randsburg, Victorville,
San Bernardino, San Bernardino Steam Plant, Riverside, Perris, Corona, Elsinore,
Hemet, San Jacinto, Banning, Coachella, Brawley, Imperial, El Centro, Holtville,
Calexico, and Blythe. Bishop Creek No. 1 Camp; Saddlebags Lake, Dam, and Camp.
Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
Box 134, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric
Projects (vol 132)
approximately 1915
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs documenting construction of Agnew Lake Dam and Gem Lake Dam to provide
head for Rush Creek Powerhouse.
Box 135, Ser. 3
San Bernardino Steam Plant album
1911 - 1912
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photograph of San Bernardino Steam Plant, including excavation for machinery, plant
and boiler construction, turbine installations and assembly, and transmission lines.
Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
Box 136, Ser. 3
Scrapbook related to Lake Elsinore and Southern Sierras Power Company
territory
approximately 1913 - 1934
Scope and Contents
Printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and rates communication letters
related to Lake Elsinore and Southern Sierras Power Company service area. Section at
back of scrapbook contains clippings related to deaths caused by natural gas. Business
card of P.L. Nourse, Division Superintendent, attached. Photographer: Southern Sierras
Power Company.
Box 137, Ser. 3
Scrapbook related to Southern Sierras Power Company territory
approximately 1913 - 1922
Scope and Contents
Printed material, newspaper clippings, photographs, and rates communication letters
related to Southern Sierras Power Company service area. Photographer: Southern Sierras
Power Company.
Box 138, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric
Projects (vol 136)
1910 - 1914
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Constructing San Bernardino Steam Plant, transformer assembly, water tank, boiler
construction, turbine assembly, switchyard; Facilities at Bakersfield, Goldfield,
Tonopah, Owens River, Elsinore, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, Corona, Hemet, Perris, El
Centro, and Coachella; Bishop hydroelectric facilities and construction of South Lake
Dam; Nevada mining operations; Gem, Tioga, Saddlebags, Agnew, Summit, Rhinedollar,
Crystal, Mono, and Lundy Lakes; Mill Creek hydroelectric construction, including Mill
Creek [Lundy] Powerhouse, wood-stave flowline, penstock, Lundy Dam. Photographer:
Southern Sierras Power Company.
Box 139, Ser. 3
Scrapbook of photographs and ephemera related to inauguration of power
service for Hoover Dam
1931
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook containing photographs, brochures, inaugural program and list of attendees,
advertisements, letters, Western Union telegrams to Southern Sierras Power and
Nevada-California Electric, clippings, maps, and other memorabilia related to
construction of the Nevada-California Electric transmission line to Hoover Dam
site.
Box 140, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Bishop Creek Hydroelectric
Power
n.d.
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Bishop Creek hydroelectric Plant 2, 3, 4 5, and 6 as well as upper
Bishop Creek watershed, No. 1 [Sabrina Dam] Reservoir, Hillside Reservoir [South Lake
Dam], Intake 2 Reservoir in snow; Mines in Goldfield, Nevada (Combination, Merger, and
Florence Mines); Nevada-California Power Company headquarters in Goldfield, stamp
mill; Belmont Mine in Tonopah; Substations at: Goldfield, Tonopah, Millers, Lone Pine,
Inyokern, Randsburg, Barstow, Victorville, San Bernardino, Corona, Elsinore, Perris,
Coachella, and El Centro; Yellow Aster mine, St. Charles Hotel, Johannesburg, CA.,
Atolia Mine, Ice plant in Barstow, cement plants.
Box 141, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling & Mining
Co.
approximately 1904-1908
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Bishop Creek (construction at Plants 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), operator cottages,
wood-stave flowlines, erecting transmission towers, erecting standpipe, diversions and
intakes.
Box 142, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. -
Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations
approximately 1904-1908
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Owens Valley hydroelectric projects, mining operations, [wood face dams at South
Lake, and Lake Sabrina].
Box 143, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co. -
Vance & Sandy 1926 - Bishop Creek hydroelectric project
approximately 1916-1926
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Bishop Creek hydroelectric project - wood face dams at South Lake, and Lake Sabrina;
Intake 2 reservoir; operator's cottage, Plant 4, Intake 5.
Box 144, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada Power, Milling, & Mining Co.:
Construction of Bishop Creek Powerhouse No. 1
approximately 1905
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction of Bishop Creek Powerhouse 1 and water lines [powerhouse No. 4].
Includes several cyanotype prints.
Box 145, Ser. 3
Photographs of Maps, charts and drawings of Nevada-California Power Company
hydroelectric projects
1907 - 1909
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Maps and charts include Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada distribution system; Bishop
Creek hydroelectric, Bradford [South] Lake; drainage above Bishop Creek Reservoirs;
Storage Reservoir on Middle Fork, Bishop Creek; Plans for Dams on South Fork, Middle
Fork, North Fork of Bishop Creek; Details for sluice gates, crib dams, intakes, Dam at
Intake 2 Reservoir, South Fork Feed Line, pipelines, valves, sluice gates, powerhouse
and transformer house floor plans, Plant Layouts, pipeline profiles, transmission
lines and poles; Power distribution map; northern reservoirs.
Box 146, Ser. 3
Nevada-California Power Company - unidentified scenes [possibly ruins from
avalanche at Jordon Powerhouse]
n.d.
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
[Photographs possibly showing ruins from avalanche at Bishop Creek Powerhouse No. 1],
Perris workers, Cerro Gordo aerial tram, Imperial Line, Whitewater. All photographs
undated and unidentified in album.
Box 147, Ser. 3
Unidentified scenes of power construction and ranches
approximately 1911
Scope and Contents
Album of unidentified photographs depicting construction of transmission lines, and
substations, as well as ranch activities and horses. Four loose Photographs includes
remains of the Jordan Powerhouse after it was destroyed by an avalanche in 1911.
Box 148, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Bishop
Creek hydroelectric project
approximately 1905
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Intake 2 Reservoir on North Fork Bishop Creek, Dam site - Reservoir No. 2, Lake on
Middle Fork of Bishop Creek (Reservoir No. 1), dam site Reservoir No. 1, dam and
intake, wood stave flowline, construction of a Bishop Creek Powerhouse [looks like
Plant No. 4].
Box 149, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.:
Photographs of Owens Valley and Las Vegas, Nevada
approximately 1906
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Intake 2, Dam construction at Lake Sabrina and South Lake, Plant 2 and cottages,
Plant 4, recreation building, Plant 5, Silver Peak Substation, Las Vegas train station
and surrounding town.
Box 150, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Report
and photographs for Mill Creek Watershed and Lundy Lake
approximately 1912
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Typescript report and photographs for the Nevada-California Electric Company
hydroelectric power development of the Mill Creek watershed, Lundy Dam and intake, and
Lundy Powerhouse. Project provided electricity for mining operations in Nevada
(Aurora, Lucky Boy, Fairview, Wonder, and Rawhide). Album cover and first 4 pages of
the report are missing.
Box 151, Ser. 3
Report on repairs to Rush Creek Pipeline; Report on construction of Lee
Vining Creek Plan No. 1 transmission line
approximately 1922; 1924
Scope and Contents
Two typescript reports containing photographs: the first related to the repair of
Rush Creek Pipeline in 1922; the second report documents the construction of Lee
Vining Creek Plant No. 1 [Poole Powerhouse], and the transmission line connecting it
with the Rush Creek Plant in 1924.
Box 152, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: progress
reports
1906 - 1914
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Rhyolite Substation, Temescal Rock Company Substation, Banning
Substation; Bishop Creek hydroelectric Plant No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5; Reservoir No.
1 [South Lake or Lake Sabrina], Equalizing Reservoir [Intake 2] showing proposed
position of Plant No. 1, Control Station, and Cottages; Substations and Transmission
Lines, including Victorville, Ransburg, Tonopah, Goldfield, Alkali, Manhattan,
Elsinore, El Centro, and San Bernardino; Otay Dam and Reservoir.
Box 153, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.:
Construction photos taken at Tioga Dam, Rush Meadows Dam, and Gem Lake
Reservoir
Sept. 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Construction photographs taken at Tioga Dam, Rush Meadows Dam, and Gem Lake
Reservoir.
Box 154, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Hoover
Dam line construction
1931
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographic map of Nevada-California Electric Corporation Transmission Line from
Victorville to Boulder (Hoover) Dam site with profiles, tower drawings, as well as
photographs of construction camps, tower installations, building tower bases, hanging
insulators, stringing conductors, splicing conductor, switching towers, angle towers,
angle "AP" type towers, dead end towers, and the Hoover Dam Substation.
Box 155, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Bishop
Creek hydroelectric project
1907
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Bishop Creek, Intake 2 Dam spilling, No. 2 Pipeline, Power House No. 1
interior, Sabrina quarry, Plant 4 facilities, Power House 5, and construction of Lake
Sabrina and South Lake Dams. Includes a cyanotype view.
Box 156, Ser. 3
Photographs of Mono Basin reservoirs and hydroelectric power
plants
1927
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Saddlebags Reservoir, Lee Vining Creek Watershed, Tioga Reservoir, Rhinedollar
Reservoir, Sylvester Meadows, Rush Meadows Dam and Reservoir, Gem Lake Dam and
Reservoir, Agnew Dam and Reservoir, Grant Lake Dam and Reservoir, Cain Ranch, Lee
Vining Creek Cascades, Poole Powerhouse substation and penstock, Poole Powerhouse
interior, Lee Vining Creek Plant No. 3, Mill Creek Plant (Lundy Powerhouse), Adams
Main Plant (Owens River Gorge), Adams Cottages, and Adams Auxiliary Plant. First page
states that photographs were "Taken in July, 1927, by Edwin Avery Field for the
illustrated booklet of the Nevada-California Electric Corp."
Box 157, Ser. 3
Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of principal plants and
properties of subsidiary companies
1927 - 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of hydroelectric plants and properties with typescript table of content.
Photographs include El Centro No. 1, Brawley No. 3, Calexico No. 4, Calipatria No. 7,
and Holtville No. 6 Ice Plants; San Bernardino Steam Plant and warehouse; Office
buildings in El Centro, Riverside, Brawley, Calexico, San Jacinto, Victorville, San
Bernardino, and Palm Springs; Ice Service Stations; Abelour Ranch; Cain Ranch;
Telephone and Telegraph facilities; Blythe Oil Engine Plant. Stamped on interior of
album: "Library, The Southern Sierras Power Co., Riverside, California" and additional
check-out stamps from 1928 - 1936.
Box 158, Ser. 3
Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Photographs of representative service
installations of subsidiary companies
1927 - 1928
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Electrical Distribution as well as operations involving industry and
industrial consumers, agriculture (farming, dairy, poultry, irrigation, alfalfa,
cantaloupes, lettuce), mining, rural electrification, and hotels and resorts. Areas
encompass Riverside, San Bernardino, Corona, Elsinore, Brawley, El Centro, and
Calexico (Mexicali Light and Power); Mining customers in Tonopah, Goldfield, and
Randsburg; Hotels and Resorts, including El Mirador, Desert Inn, La Quinta, Barbara
Worth, Planters, Belvedere Inn, Soba Hot Springs, Loma Linda Sanitarium, Casa Del
Deserito. Photographs of workers picking and packing American Beauty brand cantaloupes
and lettuce. A typescript table of contents is at the beginning of the album and each
photograph is introduced by a typescript description.
Box 159, Ser. 3
Cloud-seeding operations by Southern Sierras Power Co.
May 18, 1948 and Oct. 13, 1948
Scope and Contents
Photograph report on cloud-seeding operations undertaken by Southern Sierras Power
Company in 1948 to increase water storage for eastern Sierras' hydroelectric projects.
Album includes U.S. Department of Commerce Weather Bureau, Research Paper No. 36 on
Cloud Seeding Operations in the Bishop Creek, California Watershed.
Box 160, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp.: hydroelectric plants and other facilities;
San Gorgonio plants No. 1 and No. 2
1928 - 1952
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs of San Gorgonio hydroelectric Plants 1 and 2, including a map, operator's
cottages, water tanks, pipeline repairs; Bishop Creek - Replacing Plant 4 standpipe,
dredging intake 4, snow cat work at South Lake, snow catcher; California Electric
Power visit to Big Creek; Transmission line repairs in snow; Palm Springs District
Office and other California Electric Power facilities.
Box 161, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp.: Civil Engineer Samuel Storrow survey and
evaluation report on the hydroelectric potential of the Bishop Creek
watershed
1907
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Civil Engineer Samuel Storrow's survey and detailed report on the hydroelectric
potential of Bishop Creek watershed. Photographs of Hillside Reservoir [i.e.. South
Lake], Lake Sabrina, construction of Sabrina Dam, [Intake 2] regulating dam below
Sabrina, and Hillside [South Lake] Dam; Pine Tree Weir; also includes shots of Plant 1
and its flowline [the plant was destroyed in an avalanche and never rebuilt].
Box 162, Ser. 3
California Electric Power Corp. - Cain Irrigation Co. description and costs
of Gem Lake reinforcement
June - December 1924
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Report by the Dwight P. Robinson Company of consulting engineers on the Gem Lake
Reinforcement Project, including final contract statement, and photographs of Rush
Meadows Lake, Agnew Lake, Gem Lake and Gem Lake Dam; incline Tramways No. 1 and No. 2,
hoists; quarry, crushing plant, chuting concrete, construction camps; Typescript
report includes all costs for material and labor.
Box 163, Ser. 3
Nevada-California Electric Corp.: Hydroelectric projects, El Centro
cityscape, Brawley City, etc.
approximately 1915
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
El Centro cityscape, Brawley City Hall, Gem Lake Reservoir, Agnew Lake, construction
of Gem Lake multiple arch dam, and Rush Creek Powerhouse; Lundy Dam construction,
Lundy wood-stave flowline; Jordan Powerhouse; Aurora Mining and Milling Co., Fairview
Mine, Wonder Mine; Lee Vining Creek, and Tioga Lake. "A.B. West" embossed on album
cover.
Box 164, Ser. 3
All American Canal and Imperial Dam
1937
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Party of men, including Judge Isaac Pacht, touring the Imperial Dam and the
All-American Canal. "Track Speeder" in front of District Mess Hall; Inspecting
"Rockwood Heading"; "Hanlon Heading"; "Gate" for All-American Canal Settling Basin,
Imperial Dam; Desilting Basin, Imperial Dam; Arizona side "Gates" for Settling Basin
for Arizona water.
Box 165, Ser. 3
Construction of Eagle Rock Substation
1913
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs by Stone and Webster Construction Co. documenting the construction of
Eagle Rock Substation, in Eagle Rock, California. Job Order No. 1343
Box 166, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and No. 2
1913 - 1914
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs by Stone and Webster Construction Co. documenting construction of Big
Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and Powerhouse No. 2 in Fresno Co., California. Job Order No.
1142
Box 167, Ser. 3
Big Creek facilities and operations, photographs by Norman B.
Taylor
1920 - 1921
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs documenting Big Creek facilities and operations around 1920 and 1921.
Typescript index with identifying information at beginning of album.
Box 168, Ser. 3
Rush Creek hydroelectric project
1941
Scope and Contents
Photographs of cable replacement at Rush Creek Substation after a fire.
Box 169, Ser. 3
Survey and construction photographs of Boulder (Hoover) Dam
approximately 1933
Scope and Contents
Survey and construction photographs documenting Boulder (Hoover) Dam. The album holds
94 pages with prints. A small number of newspaper articles, project brochures and an
additional 80 loose prints of various sizes are included in the box containing the
album.
Box 170, Ser. 3
Album of photographs documenting the Kaweah No. 1, 2, 3, and Tule River
hydroelectric plants, Mount Whitney Power Co.
approximately 1904
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Photographs documenting four hydroelectric projects on the Kaweah and Tule Rivers,
including Kaweah Plants No. 1, 2, and 3. Business card of Edison employee L.R. Quinby
attached to one of the pages.
Box 170, Ser. 3
Edison employee family album of Big Creek project
approximately 1924 - 1925
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Album of snapshots compiled by unidentified Edison employee with scenes of Big Creek
camp and employees engaged in various recreational activities. Photographs accompanied
by decorative hand drawn flourishes as well as identifications, poems, and verse. Many
of the images focus on Camp 63 of Big Creek.
Box 170, Ser. 3
Big Creek initial development
1914
Digitized album:
Scope and Contents
Brochure published by PL&P about the Big Creek hydroelectric project, containing
maps and pictures accompanied by text. A letter inserted at the end of the album from
Bernell Smith to Mr. R.W. Maraist dated April 3, 1982, recounts life at Big Creek as
an Edison employee.
Box 171, Ser. 3
Edison employee album of Big Creek [?] scenes
approximately 1950-1960
Scope and Contents
Snapshots by Edison employee, Lynn Harrington, of hydroelectric project, possibly of
Big Creek, scenery, and group gatherings. A few pictures are identified. There are at
least two pictures of Harrington.
Box 171, Ser. 3
Edison employee album of Big Creek scenes
approximately 1925
Scope and Contents
Snapshots and real photo postcards compiled by Edison Employee, Bert Clickenger
(1884-1964) of workers and facilities related to Big Creek. Some of the snapshots have
captions and notes. The real photo postcards are identified.
Box 172, Ser. 3
Construction of Edison Building general office, 5th & Grand avenues, Los
Angeles
1930
Scope and Contents
Photographs by P.J. Walker Construction Company showing construction progress of the
Edison General Office building at Fifth and Grand streets in Los Angeles from May to
November 1930. There are also photographs by Mushet showing president John B. Miller
and George C. Ward at dedication ceremony and laying of the cornerstone.
Box 172, Ser. 3
Dedication of Big Creek No. 4, Dam 7, Redinger Lake
1951
Scope and Contents
Dedication ceremony of Dam 7 of Big Creek No. 4 at Redinger Lake with scenes of
crowds, speakers on a dais, and views of the dam itself.
Box 173, Ser. 3
Photographs of Edison employees
approximately 1906 - 1950s
Scope and Contents
A miscellaneous assortment of group photographs of Edison employees and employees of
Edison predecessor companies. Photographs of workers from a variety of locations and
departments. Some photographs are accompanied by employee identification.
Box 174, Ser. 3
Aerial photographs, unidentified
approximately 1928-1929
Scope and Contents
Aerial photographs (all unidentified), presumably of Edison properties showing bodies
of water, mountains, residential development, and a shoreline. One series is numbered
from 7-78 with several gaps in numbering. Another series by Fairchild Aerial Survey
includes the Fairchild Index Number on the back.
Box 175, Ser. 3
Laguna-Bell Substation
approximately 1923-1954
Scope and Contents
Compilation of loose photographs and snapshots documenting the employees, operations,
and facilities of Laguna-Bell Substation.
Box 176, Ser. 3
Photographs and clippings of Borel, Santa Ana River, Mill Creek, and Kern
River
n.d.
Scope and Contents
Compilation of loose photographs and clippings related to Borel Flume, Santa Ana
River No. 1 and 2, Mill Creek No. 1, 2 and 3; Kern River No. 1; and Lytle Creek.
Box 177, Ser. 3
F.P.C. Projects 67 and 120, Volume 3 (copy 2)
August 1920 - November 1929
Scope and Contents
Duplicate of F.P.C. Projects 67 and 120, Volume 3 (Box 9).
Box 178-179, Ser. 3
Construction of Big Creek No. 4, Dam 7, Redinger Lake
1950
Scope and Contents
Two boxes of loose snapshots documenting the construction of Dam 7 at Big Creek No.
4. Photographs arranged as received and are badly warped.
Loose photographs Series 4
Physical Description: 5,598
Items (41 boxes)
Scope and Contents
A collection of individual photographs arranged by Edison subseries and photograph
number. Most of these images are an assemblage of duplicates found elsewhere in the
collection, and are identified and arranged only by number, not by subject.
There are 23 panoramic prints (Box 41) of employees in group portraits, meetings,
conventions, banquets, picnics, and outings by photographers such as M.F. Weaver,
Sessions, Petrie, and Prince. Many of the images were made at the beach and at The
Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, approximately 1915–1944.
Box 1, Ser. 4
Edison Electric Company (various subjects)
1883-1912
Scope and Contents
Prints numbered 1 - 546.
Box 2, Ser. 4
Edison Electric Company (various subjects)
1883-1912
Scope and Contents
Prints numbered 547-938.
Box 3, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 3 - 1687.
Box 4, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 1717 - 2968.
Box 5, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 2969 - 4610.
Box 6, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 4615 - 6357.
Box 7, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 6401 - 7790.
Box 8, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 7791 - 8663.
Box 9, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 8701 - 9496.
Box 10, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 9502 - 12081.
Box 11, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 12083 - 12500.
Box 12, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 12501 - 14159.
Box 13, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 14162 - 14550.
Box 14, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 14551 - 14896.
Box 15, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 14901 - 15300.
Box 16, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 15307 - 15698.
Box 17, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 15701 - 16081.
Box 18, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 16082 - 16350.
Box 19, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 16351 - 16449.
Box 20, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 16651 - 17197.
Box 21, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 17199 - 18186.
Box 22, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 18230 - 18995.
Box 23, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 19004 - 19694.
Box 24, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 19710 - 20385.
Box 25, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 20409 - 20835.
Box 26, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 20902 - 21742.
Box 27, Ser. 4
Southern California Edison (various subjects)
1908-1960
Scope and Contents
Edison numbers 21743 - 46316.
Box 28, Ser. 4
Pacific Light & Power Company (various subjects)
1902-1917
Box 29, Ser. 4
Pacific Light & Power Company (various subjects)
1902-1917
Box 30, Ser. 4
Pacific Light & Power Company (various subjects)
1902-1917
Box 31, Ser. 4
Pacific Light & Power Company (various subjects)
1902-1917
Box 32, Ser. 4
Mt. Whitney Power Company (various subjects)
1899-1920
Box 33, Ser. 4
Doug White, photographer (SCE, various subjects)
1938-1960s
Box 34, Ser. 4
Joe Fadler, photographer (SCE, various subjects)
1950s-1970s
Box 35, Ser. 4
Joe Fadler, photographer (SCE, various subjects)
1950s-1970s
Box 36, Ser. 4
California Electric Corporation [Cal-Electric] (various subjects)
1941-1964
Box 37, Ser. 4
California Electric Corporation [Cal-Electric] (various subjects)
1941-1964
Box 38, Ser. 4
Art Adams, photographer (SCE, various subjects)
1960s-1980s
Box 39, Ser. 4
Images for book "Iron Men and Copper Wires" (published 1983)
Physical Description: 583
Items
Box 40, Ser. 4
Images for book "The Story of Big Creek" (published 1949)
Physical Description: 234
Items
Box 41, Ser. 4
Panoramic photographs of Edison employee meetings and gatherings
1915-1944
Physical Description: 23
Items
Glass negatives Series 5
Physical Description: 145
Boxes
Scope and Contents
145 boxes of glass plate negatives in three sizes: 8 x 10 in., 5 x 7 in., and 4 x 5 in.
The glass negatives are in their original arrangement, by size and negative number. They
have all been digitized and are available to view in the Huntington Digital Library (see
Series 1).
Glass negatives are housed according to size:
- 8 x 10 in. glass negatives:
- Series 5, Boxes 1-97
- 5 x 7 in. glass negatives:
- Series 5, Boxes 98-137
- 4 x 5 in. glass negatives:
- Series 5, Boxes 138-145
Conditions Governing Access
Film negatives Series 6
Physical Description: 5
Boxes (5 x 7 in., 4 x 5 in., and oversize panoramic
negatives)
Physical Location: Film negatives are stored in 5 metal
cabinets in on-site cold storage. Panoramic film negatives are in a box on top of the
cabinets.
Scope and Contents
The film negatives are arranged by size and then by subseries number and negative
number. The negatives are not arranged by subject, only negative number. The negative
number was referenced in the SCE photo logbooks to identify and date the photographs
when they were digitized for the Huntington Digital Library. A majority of these
negatives were scanned and are available in the Huntington Digital Library.
There are also 18 panoramic film negatives of Big Creek, Huntington, and Shaver Lakes
in this series that have not been digitized.
Arrangement:
- 5 x 7 in. nitrate negatives (01_00407 - 07_00362):
- Series 6, Cabinet 1
- 4 x 5 in. nitrate negatives (01_00026 - 14_001316):
- Series 6, Cabinet 2
- 4 x 5 in. safety negatives (01_00001 - 16_00453):
- Series 6, Cabinets 3-5
- Panoramic images (1-18):
- Series 6, Oversize box
Conditions Governing Access
A majority of the film negatives have been digitized and are available in the
Huntington Digital Library:
Southern California Edison negative and photograph
collection
Due to their fragility, access to the film negatives is
very limited and must be approved by the Curator of Photography. Extended retrieval and
delivery time required.
Lantern slides Series 7
approximately 1900-1920s
Physical Description: 2,340
Photographic Slides (73
boxes)
Scope and Contents
These lantern slides date from approximately 1900-1920s, and are mostly duplicates of
negatives or photographs elsewhere in the collection. The slides are in 73 boxes in an
arbitrary sequence, and have not been arranged or identified. A few of the slides have
original paper labels with handwritten caption information.
Conditions Governing Access
Access is restricted because these materials have not been processed.
Photo log books, photo binders, and notes Series 8
approximately 1908-1960s
Physical Description: 7
Boxes
Scope and Contents
Photo log books, reference binders of photographic prints, and folders containing
miscellaneous notes related to the organization of the photograph collection,
approximately 1908-1960s. These materials were used by Edison archivists to title and
date photographs in the collection.
Box 1, Ser. 8
SCE photo log book No. 1 (negatives 1 - 2516)
1908-1914
Material Specific Details: There are no entries for
negative nos. 2517 - 3700. The next book begins with no. 3701.
Digital copy available
Box 1, Ser. 8
SCE photo log book No. 2 (negatives 3701 - 8675)
1916-1923
Box 1, Ser. 8
SCE photo log book No. 3 (negatives 8676 - 18490)
1923-1934
Box 2, Ser. 8
SCE photo log book No. 4 (negatives 18491 - 26127)
1934-1944
Box 2, Ser. 8
SCE photo log book No. 5 (negatives 26128 - 42467)
1944-1950
Box 3, Ser. 8
[Photocopies of SCE photo log books No. 1 - 5]
1908-1950
Box 4, Ser. 8
Edison Electric Company, photo log book
1883-1912
Box 4, Ser. 8
Edison Electric Company, copy photographs (1 binder)
1883-1912
Box 5, Ser. 8
SCE photo logs, duplicate copies
Box 5, Ser. 8
SCE Advertising and Edison News, photo log book
Box 5, Ser. 8
California-Electric Power Corporation (Cal-Electric), photo log
book
1956-1963
Box 5, Ser. 8
SCE photographer Doug White, photo log book
1938-1960s
Box 6, Ser. 8
Contact prints of SCE negatives 1 - 5699 (3 binders)
1908- approximately 1920
Box 7, Ser. 8
Pacific Light & Power Company, card index and notes
1902-1917
Box 7, Ser. 8
Lantern slides, index
1900-1920s
Box 7, Ser. 8
SCE negative disposition index (1 binder)
Box 7, Ser. 8
Miscellaneous notes related to SCE photo collections
Microfilm, photo releases, and enclosures Series 9
Physical Description: 6
Boxes
Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Ser. 9
Microfilm Subseries A
Physical Description: 140
Reels(3 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Boxes 1-3 contain 140 reels of negative and positive microfilm of photographs. Made
by Edison in 1973 as part of a reformatting project, the microfilm appears to
duplicate the glass and film negatives in the collection. The reels are labeled with
Edison negative numbers, with the exception of 12 reels in Box 3 that have been
separated from their original labels. There are also several duplicate copies of some
reels.
Box 4, Ser. 9
Photo releases Subseries B
Physical Description: 1
Box
Scope and Contents
Box 4 contains Edison photo releases dating from approximately 1935-1957. The folders
are arranged alphabetically by client and in some cases include original photographs,
advertising copy, and tear sheets. There is a folder of releases titled "Christmas
Lights" and another entitled "Testimonial Letters."
Box 5, Box 6, Ser. 9
Enclosures (empty) Subseries C
Physical Description: 2
Boxes
Scope and Contents
Boxes 5-6 contain empty original enclosures for materials from Pacific Light &
Power, Cal-Electric, and "24729-24748, Florence Lake Dam, 1942."
Unprocessed materials Series 10
1960s-1980s
Physical Description: 12
Boxes
Scope and Contents
12 boxes of loose photographs that are primarily later copies of images found elsewhere
in the collection, or prints dating from the 1960s-1980s. The photographs are not in any
particular arrangement and have not been processed.
Conditions Governing Access
Access is restricted because these materials have not been processed.