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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Copies of ola slides - large mining operation
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Album cover embossed with title "Edison Electric Company." Photographs of EEC facilities and operations, including Los Angeles Powerhouses No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3; EEC general office construction; Pasadena office; Santa Ana River No. 1 construction and operation; Edison Electric Co. plant in Pomona; Mill Creek No. 1 interiors; Santa Ana office; Pumping Plants and substations in Orange County; Redlands plant and office; Mill Creek 3 construction; Long Beach electric plant and gas plant; Santa Monica engine No. 1; San Pedro gas plant and office; Santa Monica Office, Steam Plant, and Gas Plant; Santa Barbara plants and offices; Long Beach plants and offices; San Bernardino; Colton; Kern River; Lytle Creek construction; Puente Substation and cottage; Ontario No. 1; Kern No. 1 construction; Castaic Substation; and Fernando Substation
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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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