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Edison Substations

Description: Edison Substations, Receiving Stations, Commercial Offices, Garages, Warehouses, Operator's Cottages, Communications Building, Company Store, Shop & Test Building, Blacksmith Shop, Machine Shop, Pole Treating Plant, Type T Cottage, Control House, condenser, transformer banks, Hydroelectric Powerhouses, River Intakes, Sandboxes, Barn, Diversion Dam, Switchrack.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1940 to 1941
Call number: photCL SCE 13 - vol 104
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Torrance Substation

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Torrance Substation - Operator's Cottages and garages under construction.

photCL SCE 02 - 05418

Construction Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2

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Construction Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and 2 [Construction camps, Commissary, General Office, Engineers Building, gravel pit, crusher-washer plant, warehouses, cook house, dinning hall, operator's cottages, bunk houses, Hoist 2, locomotives #10 & #6, railroad roundhouse, water station, incline railway. Construction: pipeline, Dams 1, 2, & 3, Tunnel 2, west portal, and Adits.]

photCL SCE 13 - vol 001

The Edison Electric Company

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Los Angeles #1, #2 & #3 Powerhouses (interior & exterior); EEC General Office const.; Pasadena office; SAR #1 construction & operation; EEC plant in Pomona; Mill Creek #1 interiors; Santa Ana office; Pumping Plants & Substations in Orange County; Redlands plant and office; Mill Creek 3 construction (interior & exterior), penstocks, units, air chambers, switch pole, intakes & dams, flowlines, cottages, sandbox; Long Beach electric plant & gas plant; Santa Monica engine #1; San Pedro gas plant & office; Santa Monica Office, Steam Plant & Gas Plant; Santa Barbara plants & offices; Long Beach plants & offices; San Bernardino; Colton; Kern River; Lytle Creek construction; Puente Sub. & cottage; Ontario #1 with interiors; Kern #1 construction - Democrat Dam, flumes, tunnel work, Powerhouse, penstock assembly, teams bringing equipment in, assembling units, spillway, transmission line; Castaic Sub.; and Fernando Sub.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 103