Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The old arc machine [which was originally in the Westside Lighting Steam Plant, but the picture was probably taken in Los Angeles #1 Steam Plant.]
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The original Westside Generator [or the first generator installed in Wright Electric Company's 22nd & Vermont St. Plant in Los Angeles.]
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Distribution Lines - A man sitting on the site of the Westside Lighting Company's Westside Steam Plant, which was the first steam plant of the Edison Electric Company.
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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.
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Los Angeles #1 Substation (old) - [Los Angeles Steam Plant #1 - Originally 2nd Street Cable Railway Co. Plant. Later Westside Lighting Co. & Edison Electric Co. - dismantled in 1906 (wam)]
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P1.2 - Portraits, misc. - Sam Darnell, Westside Lighting Company's first lineman, demonstrating how he climbed poles for the Westside Lighting Company before it evolved into the Southern California Edison Company.
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