Manuscripts

To Mt. Lowe with Love

Description

A series of still images of Mt. Lowe set to music and narration. Written and produced by Philip F. Callahan and narrated by Lynn Adkins. Most notable for 1920s era film footage of people ascending Mt. Lowe in cable car with original audio narrating [19:20-21:28] and trip to Alpine Tavern [22:08-25:58] which includes Ford Motor Co. footage of men scaling rocks as well as a shot of the Pacific Electric Railway red car traveling along the tracks.

Format of original: Reel

Type

Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)

Production date

approximately 1914-1996.

Call number

SCE MP 062

Creator

Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)

Provenance

Mt. Lowe Railway / Edison

Manuscripts

Same as SCE MP 062. Film travels along tracks of the Pacific Electric Railway in mountains to Mt. Lowe. Format of original: Reel

SCE MP 122

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To Mt. Lowe with Love

Manuscripts

Same as SCE MP 062. See SCE MP 062 for link to digitized film. Format of original: Reel

SCE MP 518

Mt. Lowe Incline

Visual Materials

View of cable car and riders at bottom of the Mt. Lowe incline.

photCL Pierce 04961

Incline - Mt. Lowe Railroad

Visual Materials

View of cable car and passengers at the base of Mt. Lowe incline.

photCL Pierce 04967

Henry E. Huntington at Mt. Lowe, 1910

Visual Materials

A group picture of Henry E. Huntington and associates at the Mount Lowe railway, which he had purchased in 1902. Group stands on and around the funicular car "Rubio." Huntington is on the platform immediately to the left of the car, third from the bottom. MS notes on verso read "Mt. Lowe, group includes HEH - also, probably, E--- Randolph (light suit, black hat, in the car)", "Gift of Mrs. Rox Donaldson, her uncle was E--- Randolph", and "HEH at Mt. Lowe, 1910?"

photCL 285

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Electricity for the Modern Farm; Thomas Alva Edison at General Electric; Herbert Hoover at Greenfield Village, Michigan, 1919-1929

Manuscripts

Compilation reel. First film is "Electricity for the Modern Farm" (c. 1919), contemporary references available online. Followed by Thomas Alva Edison as he tours the General Electric Company lamp laboratories in Schenectady, New York in 1922. Part 1: 15:01-21:03 Footage of Edison with photometer and illuminated lamps; Part 2: 21:59-34:26 Mr. Edison and Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz ride in a car and are greeted by 20,000 employees, footage of Dr. Coolidge explaining process of ductile tungsten, 31:07 women at work in plant with lamps; beginning 34:41-39:16 President Herbert Hoover and dedication of Edison Institute of Technology at Greenfield Village, Michigan, 1929. Format of original: negative

SCE MP 515

To Mt. Lowe with Love

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