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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

Description: End of construction of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1, including turbine installations, control rooms, transformers, cooling water system, plant start-up; Beginning construction for Plant No. 2, including excavation, driving piles for Plant 2 foundation.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: February - March 1914
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.

End of construction of Long Beach Steam Plant #1

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End of construction of Long Beach Steam Plant #1 - turbine installations, control rooms, transformers, cooling water system, plant start-up; and start of construction for Plant #2 - excavation, driving piles for Plant 2 foundation.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 085

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1, showing later construction of the plant, interior shots, control rooms, and transformers. Construction of support facilities, cooling water intakes and conduits. Expansion of Steam Plant for additional units.

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 turbo installation, Boiler No. 50, laying 15" gas main, driving piles for Unit No. 11, take-off towers, towers at channel crossing, installing transformers and oil switches, switching garden, [cooling water] intake, gauge board, switchboard, station overviews, turbine deck, boiler interior, defective pump, evaporators, chemistry lab, fuel oil pump room, exciter, piles ready for steel.

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Long Beach Steam Station

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Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 construction photos, turbo installation, Boiler #50, laying 15" gas main, to L.B.S.S., driving piles for Unit #11, take-off towers, towers at channel crossing, installing transformers and oil switches, Switching Garden, [cooling water] intake, gauge board, switchboard, station overviews, turbine deck, boiler interior, defective pump, evaporators, chemistry lab., fuel oil pump room, exciter, piles ready for steel.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 092

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: boiler installation, pile driving, train derailment at steam station, specimens of marine growth from intake tunnel, overviews of Steam Station, extension of Plant No. 1, dismantling old Long Beach Gas Plant, foundation work for Unit No. 2.

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: early construction shots showing pile driving for foundation, stack construction, intake excavation, overviews from bridge.

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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