Visual Materials

Personnel: Groups, portraits

Description: Group portraits of Edison employees at various facilities, including, Engineering group (all identified) at 2nd and Boylston office, drafting group, Long Beach Steam Station supervisors; Transmission and Distribution line crews; plant workers; local office workers, General Office workers; motorcycle crew; light bulb replacement crew on motorcycles and off; salesmen; women at the beach; garage workers; executives in the desert (Benjamin F. Pearson in one photograph).
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1913 - 1916
Call number: photCL SCE
Creator: Southern California Edison Company(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Edison International, December 2005.
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