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  Series 10. Lantern slides

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  These slides are primarily photographs, with some maps and charts, and date from approximately 1905-1915. They were used by Arnold to accompany his lectures related to geology and oil exploration. Most are slides of photographs taken by Arnold that also appear in the photograph albums and have handwritten numbers and caption information.

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  Lantern slides, index

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  The Southern California Edison collection of negatives and photographs consists of approximately 80,000 images created and acquired by the company from approximately 1883-1989, with the bulk of the collection covering 1910-1960. Formats include glass and film negatives, photo cards, loose photographs, photograph albums, lantern slides, and related materials. Most of the images were produced by Edison staff and contract photographers to document Edison facilities, products, operations, activities, and employees and for the purposes of education, advertising, training, and liability. The SCE collection offers a range of subjects far broader than the company's original intent. In addition to infrastructural images of transmission lines, steam plants, substations, equipment, vehicles, and hydroelectric plants, the company captured the uses of light and electricity in its myriad capacities, including night lighting of streets, billboards, storefronts, and gas stations; electric kitchens and appliances in domestic and industrial settings such as restaurants and cafes; agricultural innovations in the dairy and poultry industries; lighting for recreational uses such as swimming pools, bathhouses, tennis courts; golf courses; office work; and accident scenes and disasters, particularly the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928.

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  Unprocessed materials

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  12 boxes of loose photographs that are primarily later copies of images found elsewhere in the collection, or prints dating from the 1960s-1980s. The photographs are not in any particular arrangement and have not been processed.

  Series 10

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  Glass plate negatives and lantern slides

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  Contains 15 glass plate negatives and 30 lantern slides, some of which are duplicates. Thirteen slides (27-39) do not have corresponding copy prints. They are primarily views of Native Americans on horses (possibly scouts) and desert scenery.

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  Loose photographs

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  A collection of individual photographs arranged by Edison subseries and photograph number. Most of these images are an assemblage of duplicates found elsewhere in the collection, and are identified and arranged only by number, not by subject. There are 23 panoramic prints (Box 41) of employees in group portraits, meetings, conventions, banquets, picnics, and outings by photographers such as M.F. Weaver, Sessions, Petrie, and Prince. Many of the images were made at the beach and at The Huntington Hotel, Pasadena, approximately 1915–1944.

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  Lantern Slides [SEALED]

  Manuscripts

  The chief topics of the Curphey papers are: his work as Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Battered Child Syndrome, air pollution, smoking and smog, aircraft accidents, suicide and suicide prevention, drug addiction and overdose, causes of death, homicides, asphyxia, autopsy, drowning, forensic pathology, forensic science, oral contraceptives, and violent deaths. The collection contains several boxes of glass lantern slides Curphey created for talks that he would give to other physicians. Prior to cataloging, most of the papers were stored in manila file folders with subject headings written in Curphey's handwriting. The current organizational structure of the collection for the most part replicates the classification system of Curphey's folders. In most cases, the contents of his folders were transferred in the order and under the conditions in which they were found. When appropriate and possible, the titles and sequence of Curphey's folders were retained. The original sequence of folders was not retained in those instances where no organizational schema seemed apparent, or when larger thematic groupings seemed preferable. For instance, all of Curphey's papers on air pollution and smoking, suicide, the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, battered child syndrome, and aviation accident investigations have been grouped together within the collection. While the contents of the folders on each of these topics generally replicate the contents of Curphey's individual folders, the folders themselves have been consolidated for organizational purposes and ease of access.

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