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Into the Future 1952 (1922?)


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    "Presenting the Midway Site" Downtown Long Beach scenes, 1937

    Manuscripts

    Note on original container: "Downtown scenes, Long Beach steamer, Normandie Ave." Most of film shows open land, with grasses and vegetation, presumably the future site of a power plant. Includes a few scenes of people boarding a steamship in Long Beach, walking on city streets with trolleys in background. Format of original:

    SCE MP 528

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    Edison Centennial Reel 50

    Manuscripts

    Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 24:25:00 Edison Centennial Reel 50 (Library Roll #1170 - Historical/B+W stills). Includes the following drawings and photographs: 1. Drawing of turbine (?) 4:00:46 2. Turbine (various shots) 4:01:03 3. Interior of plant 4:04:19 4. Conductor on cable car with horse 4:06:59 5. Exterior downtown scene 4:07:15 6. Early lineman (various shots) 4:10:02 7. Crowded street scene 4:12:43 8. Man with pipe in hole with wire 4:14:59 9. Early power station interior, man by controls 4:14:59 10. Drawing of X section of town line 4:15:59 11. Man in power station 4:17:04 12. Row of transmission. lines 4:17:59 13. Construction site 4:18:49 14. Men in early car with sacks, coming out of tunnel 4:19:44 15. Exterior power station by water (Big Creek) 4:22:27 16. Man sits on wood plank over water (Big Creek) 4:24:43

    SCE MP 251

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    Edison Centennial Reel 51, GJM Productions

    Manuscripts

    Format of original: U-Matic (See DVD copy) Run time: 22:27 Edison Centennial Reel 51 (Library Roll #1171-B+W stills). Includes the following photographs and documents: 1. Power station by water 5:00:39 2. Trans. lines 5:01:13 3. Men work on transmission. lines 5:01:35 4. Trans. line by white buildings 5:02:38 5. Trans. lines (row of) 5:03:22 6. Pacific Light and Power Corp. building (2 images) 5:04:03 7. Street sign with northern line (various shots) 5:05:48 8. Power line pan up 5:09:48 9. Drawing of reservoir 5:10:53 10. Men haul up equipment with horse-drawn cart 5:11:50 11. Nevada Power, Mining, and Milling annual report (color) 5:12:20 12. Men haul up equipment with horse-drawn cart 5:13:29 13. Row of trans. lines 5:15:29 14. Newspaper - "Good news for miners" 5:16:45 15. Busy street scene 5:17:25 16. People getting on train 5:18:57 17. Construction site 5:20:19 18. Men in interior of station 5:21:00 19. Men in white dress 5:22:09

    SCE MP 244

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    Future

    Manuscripts

    Format of original: Reel

    SCE MP 168

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    Big Creek: Early Big Creek and other Edison facilities

    Visual Materials

    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.

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    Album of snapshots by Ben Johannsen of California Electric Power Company (vol 126)

    Visual Materials

    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.

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