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
Photograph album of Edison employee, Kingsley A. Dutton, including pictures of Borel Powerhouse and interiors; Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1; Dam 4; Cascada; incline railway and hoist; Kern River No. 1; Kern River No. 3; Tule Powerhouse; Eagle Rock Substation; and Fairview Dam. Personal snapshots include views of Glendale, Griffith Park, early motorcycles, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and a Boston terrier.
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Early construction photographs of Big Creek, including grading for hoist line, sawmill, railway grade construction, gravel washer, reservoir from Dam 1 [Huntington Lake], east portal Tunnel No. 3, logging; Big Creek Dam 2 and Dam site 3; Big Creek Camp 1, gravel pit, gravel washer; Big Creek crossing at foot of incline [Powerhouse No. 1 site]; Train No. 103 at Cascada; Train leaving for El Prado; Cascada Falls on Pitman Creek; Cascada yards; Hoist No. 2; Warehouse, planning mill, and lumber yards. Photographs by Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation.
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Roy K. Wanner's personal album with shots from the Kern River #3 project - construction at Fairview Dam, flume and sandbox construction, tunnel construction, Kern 3 Siphon, flowline, forebay, penstock placement, construction of Powerhouse #3, installation of units in powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse.
photCL SCE 13 - vol 117
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Photographs of Big Creek compiled by Edison employee, Perry Hornsby, including views of compressor house, sled dog team, Camp 33, 35, 38, and 61, General Office, Huntington Lodge, mess hall, Stevenson Creek Falls, Shaver Sawmill, San Joaquin and Eastern Climax locomotive No. 107, hoist; construction at Dam 5, Dam 6, Intake 3, Powerhouse 3, Powerhouse 8, diver at intake, Penstock blow-out at Powerhouse 8; Kern River No. 3 construction.
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Photos of Borel flume and canal work (mostly un-numbered), Borel headworks, Borel Powerhouse, Kern River #3 construction, Santa Ana River #1 powerhouse, SAR 1 intake, SAR 1 settling basin, SAR #2 powerhouse, Mill Creek #1 Powerhouse, Mill Creek #3 intake, Mill Creek cottages, SAR #3 flume construction, PL&P construction photos from 1903, Bear Valley Dam (Union Power Co.), Mill Creek 2&3 Powerhouse, SAR flood damage.
photCL SCE 13 - vol 073
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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
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