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Miscellaneous transmission towers

Description: Transmission Lines, including Los Angeles No. 3-Long Beach; Long Beach-Colton (collapsed tower); Kern River; Santa Barbara transmission line; Tejon Substation; Kern River No. 3-Vestal; Eagle-Bell; Big Creek transmission line; raising Big Creek Towers; Miscellaneous non-Edison towers.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1912 - 1923
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.

Miscellaneous Transmission Towers, Transmission Lines: LA#3

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Miscellaneous Transmission Towers, Transmission Lines: LA#3-Long Beach, L.B.-Colton (collapsed tower), Kern River T/L, Santa Barbara T/L, Tejon Sub., KR#3-Vestal, Eagle-Bell, Big Creek T/L; raising Big Creek Towers; misc. non-SCE towers,

photCL SCE 13 - vol 074

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Transmission lines: Vincent, Lighthipe-Chino, Long Beach, Big Tujunga

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Transmission Lines, including Brea Camp on the Lighthipe-Chino 66kV transmission line, mess hall, kitchen, hospital tent; Long Beach-Lighthipe-Laguna Bell transmission line, including multi-circuit tower construction, driving piles for tower foundations, collapsed Long Beach transmission line tower; Vincent 220kV transmission line, including road building, Construction Camps 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, and 10, Camp 6 kitchen and mess hall, Maple Canyon, Big Tujunga, transporting tower materials, tractors pulling graders, pack trains, building towers, pulling cable, cable splicing.

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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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Big Creek, Mill Creek, Kern River, etc

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Big Creek rivers and streams; Powerhouse 2 interior; Cascada general office; Huntington Lake Lodge, Huntington Lake and Dam 1, Shaver Lake, Powerhouse No. 2, Powerhouse No. 8 interior and exterior, Dam 6 and Intake 3, Powerhouse No. 3; Vestal, Eagle Rock Substation, Laguna Bell Substation; Mill Creek No. 1 exterior and interior; Kern River No. 3 exterior and interior, Kern River No. 1 interior; Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1; Camp on Eagle-Bell Line near San Gabriel; Edison Executive portraits; and Edison General Office at 3rd and Broadway, Los Angeles.

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Miscellaneous Transmission - Kern River #3-Vestal line

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Miscellaneous Transmission - Kern River #3-Vestal line - extension legs of towers

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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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