Manuscripts

California Electric Power Co., Roll 3, Palm Springs, Night Signs, approximately 1952

Description

Views in Palm Springs of houses, backyards, swimming pools, palm trees and neon lighting on stores and restaurants. Scenes of people at outdoor cafe "The Doll House."

Format of original:

Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Production date

approximately 1914-1996.

Call number

SCE MP 531

Creator

Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Gift of Edison International, December 2005.

Restrictions

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

NOT AVAILABLE. Audiovisual materials are not available for paging until reformatted. Boxes 21-51 and oversize reels housed in cold storage. Please contact Reader Services for more information.

Tract Homes Electric Kitchen (post 1952, California Electric Power Co.)

Manuscripts

Ranch homes; horses; women using washing machine and dryer; kitchen appliances, children reading by lamp. Format of original: Reel

SCE MP 032

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California-Electric Power Corporation (Cal-Electric), photo log book

Visual Materials

The Southern California Edison collection of negatives and photographs consists of approximately 80,000 images created and acquired by the company from approximately 1883-1989, 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; golf courses; office work; and accident scenes and disasters, particularly the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928.

photCL SCE

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California Electric Power [misc. scenes, working]

Manuscripts

Format of original: Reel. [Note: slight vinegar odor] Promotional film and survey of California Electric Power terrain and infrastructure, aerial footage of snow in Sierras, workers checking equipment in deep snow. 11:51 scenes of California cities and towns with emphasis on neon signs and including steel foundry, agriculture, and household appliances in use. 30:00 mark shifts to SCE workers in the field, pouring concrete, work camps, inside a power station. Includes narration of a power line blow out filmed in slow motion.

SCE MP 036

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California Electric Power Co., 1953

Manuscripts

Format of original: possible video

SCE MP 120

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California Electric Power Co. #10 ATSF

Manuscripts

Includes scenes of men working; 5:45 Santa Fe Railway train, mountains, gushing water. Format of original: Reel

SCE MP 118

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California Electric Power Co. giant crane

Manuscripts

Format of original: Reel CraneVeyor Corp. giant crane at work in poleyard with workmen.

SCE MP 119

California Electric Power Co., Roll 3, Palm Springs, Night Signs, approximately 1952

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