Visual Materials

Group portraits

Description: Group portraits - Engineering group (with names), drafting group, LBSS supervisors, T&D line crews, plant workers, local office workers, General Office workers, motorcycle crew, light bulb replacement crew on motorcycles and off, salesmen, ladies at the beach, garage workers, executives in the desert (Ben Pearson in shot).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911 - 1923
Call number: photCL SCE 13 - vol 064
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