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Non-Edison projects including Pit River and Exchequer

Description: Long Beach Gas Plant; Inner Harbor Gas Plant; Ventura County Power Co., including Oxnard Storehouse, Ventura Powerhouse and Substation, Oxnard Stable, Oxnard Steam Plant and Substation, Santa Paula Substation, Oxnard Pumping Plant, Oxnard Gas Compressor House, Piru Substation, distribution, Ventura Gas Plant; Santa Margarita Quarry, Pit River Projects, Eagle-Bell transmission line, Hetch Hetchey transmission line and Powerhouse, Exchequer Dam and Powerhouse.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912 - 1920
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Long Beach Gas Plant, Inner Harbor Gas Plant, Ventura County Power Co. photos

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Long Beach Gas Plant, Inner Harbor Gas Plant, Ventura County Power Co. photos (Oxnard Storehouse, Ventura Powerhouse & Substation, Oxnard Stable, Oxnard Steam Plant & Substation, Santa Paula Substation, Oxnard Pumping Plant, Oxnard Gas Compressor House, Piru Substation, distribution, Ventura Gas Plant), Santa Margarita Quarry, Pit River Projects, Eagle-Bell T/L, Hetch Hetchey T/L & Powerhouse, Exchequer Dam & Powerhouse.

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Big Creek: Early Big Creek and other Edison facilities

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Substations; Big Creek Powerhouse 1 and Powerhouse 2 construction and penstock construction, Huntington Lodge and Huntington Lake, heavy snowfall, break in Powerhouse 1 penstock joint, Construction of Dam 1, 2, and 4; incline railroad, railroad locomotives, Construction of Big Creek transmission line; Magunden Substation; Kern transmission line poles, line and railroad wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aqueduct and Powerhouse; Pacific Light and Power vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa Powerhouse interior; Highgrove forebay and Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse; Mentone Powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse.

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Big Creek construction, Kern River, Redondo Steam Station, etc

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Azusa Line; Big Creek construction - Dam 2, towers, Powerhouse 2, Richgrove Patrol Sta.; Borel change to Pelton-Francis horizontal turbines, break in canal, Bodfish Flume, repairs at Schoolhouse Cut, Profanity Flume; San Bernardino "C" Street Substation, Long Beach Steam Plant, Santa Ana River 2; Fillmore Substation; PLandP trucks and wagons; Huntington Beach Substation; East Kern Line; Kern Canal, settling basin, Borel Powerhouse; Mentone - siphon, flume break, fish screen, intake; L.A. City Power Dev. Plant 1; Pedley Powerhouse - break in canal; Redondo Steam Plant; Sierra Powerhouse; Stone Castle, Vernon Substation, Santa Paula Substation, Monolith Substation, and Eagle Rock Substation.

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The Edison Electric Company, facilities and operations

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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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Borel Powerhouse and water diversions; San Antonio Canyon, Kern River, and Southern California

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Sierra penstock break, new pipeline, intake house, diversion - powerhouse; Borel Powerhouse and water diversions, original Pelton-Doble turbines, and change over to horizontal Pelton-Francis turbines; various substations; Meter testing; Mentone hydroelectric project; Pedley hydroelectric project; Casing Head Gasoline plant; Old Redondo Steam Plant construction and facilities; Stone Castle plant after fire; Ventura Power Co. steam plants, gas plant and substations; Pasadena; Wash at Sunnyslope substation; Water plant at San Bernardino

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F.P.C. Vol. 4, Projects 67 and 120

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Transportation, Vincent Transmission Line, and Stream gaging. San Joaquin and Eastern Railroad; Incline railroads at Big Creek Powerhouse No. 2, Powerhouse No. 3, and Powerhouse No. 8, Project 3 road construction in San Joaquin Canyon; winter transportation service, road construction for Florence Lake and Tunnel project; Trucks at Mono-Bear siphon; Vincent Transmission Line construction; Stream gauging; Mammoth Pool dam site; Westside projects, Powerhouse 8 Transmission Line; Views of Big Creek general office, machine shop, and radio room; Huntington Lake; Big Creek Powerhouse No. 1 and penstocks; Boylston Street drafting room during the peak of Big Creek construction; Eagle-Bell transmission line; Long Beach Steam Station.

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Non-Edison projects including Pit River and Exchequer

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