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2.2. Communication Division

Description

This subseries contains records documenting Southern California Edison's Communication Division and includes bulletins, correspondence, log sheets, manuals, minutes, photographs, reports, and other materials. Dispatcher Wartime Bulletins Files include bulletins, clippings, correspondence, diagrams, memoranda, notes, and reports pertaining to war-time air raid alarms, barrage balloons, blackouts, power interruptions, and other matters. Black and white photographic prints and negatives include images of Edison's radio communications system, the division's facilities and equipment, Breckenridge Mountain, Government Peak, and other sites.

Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically thereafter.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1922-1969
Call number
mssSCE
Creator
Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Edison International, August 2007.
Associated people
Batchelder, Dean E. (1847-1931.)
Chavannes, Albert. (1850-1927.)
Edison, Thomas A. (1892-)
Edmunds, Elizabeth Erickson.
Huntington, Henry Edwards,
Mullendore, William Clinton,
Redinger, David H.
Associated organizations
Big Creek (Calif.)
Boulder Canyon Project (U.S.)
California Public Utilities Commission.
Central Valley Project (Calif.)
Edison Electric Company.
Edison Electric Institute.
General Electric Company.
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.)
National Electric Light Association.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Railroad Commission of the State of California.
Shaver Lake (Calif.)
Tennessee Valley Authority.
United States Reclamation Service.
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