Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Big Creek rivers and streams; Powerhouse 2 interior; Cascada general office; Huntington Lake Lodge, Huntington Lake and Dam 1, Shaver Lake, Powerhouse No. 2, Powerhouse No. 8 interior and exterior, Dam 6 and Intake 3, Powerhouse No. 3; Vestal, Eagle Rock Substation, Laguna Bell Substation; Mill Creek No. 1 exterior and interior; Kern River No. 3 exterior and interior, Kern River No. 1 interior; Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1; Camp on Eagle-Bell Line near San Gabriel; Edison Executive portraits; and Edison General Office at 3rd and Broadway, Los Angeles.
photCL SCE
Visual Materials
Big Creek - Early Big Creek [Substations; Big Creek - PH 1 and PH 2 penstock construction, Huntington Lodge & Lake, heavy snowfall, break in PH1 penstock joint, const. Dam #1 & gate tower, Dam 1 spilling, Dam #2 const., Dam #4 const., PH1 const., PH1 interior, PH2 const., PH2 after fire, PH2 interiors (Units & Transformers), unit install PH1, incline RR, railroad locomotives, Big Creek transmission line const.; Magunden Sub.; Kern T/L poles, line and RR wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aquiduct and Powerhouse; PL&P vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa PH interior; Highgrove forebay & Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse (ext. & int.), Mentone PH; Borel Powerhouse]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 041
Visual Materials
Perry Hornsby's family photos; with Big Creek photos - compressor house, sled dog team, Camp 33, 35, 38, & 61, General Office, Huntington Lodge, mess hall, Stevenson Creek Falls, Shaver Sawmill, SJ&E Climax locomotive #107, hoist; construction at: (Dam 5, Dam 6, Intake 3, PH 3, PH 8, diver at intake, Penstock blow-out at PH 8); Kern River #3 construction
photCL SCE 13 - vol 060
Visual Materials
Big Creek projects & Colorado River Survey [Big Creek Project - Penstock sections, Powerhouse #1 (Unit 4 installation), Powerhouse #2, Florence Lake Dam construction (framing for concrete), Camp Hospitals, Cookhouse, Warehouse, Recreation Hall, Mess Halls, tunnel excavations, Construction Camps (#21, #64, #72, #73); Colorado River Survey; Sierra Watershed - Evolution Lake, Garnet Lake Wanda Lake, Thousand Island Lake, Heart Lake, Desolation Lake, N. Goddard Lake, Sapphire Lake; Kern River No. 1; Transmission tower construction; [Big Bear dam construction]; Huntington Lake Dam 1; Shaver Dam construction.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 053
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Visual Materials
Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 1 construction, interior of generator floor; man with divining rods; Kern River #3 - headquarters camp, plant site, river, Fairview Dam with fish ladder; Big Creek - Huntington Lake, Huntington Lake Lodge, Dam 4, cottages, PH #8, road construction to PH #3; Santa Barbara facilities - Substations, car barn, steam plants; Mill Creek #1, SAR #2 flowline, SAR #1 intake & siphon; U[neon] P[ower] Co. hydro projects - multiple arch dam at Big Bear lake, tunnels and adits.
photCL SCE 13 - vol 095
Visual Materials
Big Creek - Dams [Dam 1- intake tower (interior & exterior), seepage, sluice pipes, spilling over top and through spillways, automatic siphons; Dam 2 - watchman's house; Dam 3 & 3A; Dam 4 spilling; Dam 5 - site excavation, forms up, diversion flume, dam construction, trash rack, sluicing mud banks, PH 8 forebay construction; Dam 6 - site excavation, construction, coffer dam, diversion, framework, primary rock crusher #9, Tunnel 3 intake, Dam 6 spilling.]
photCL SCE 13 - vol 025