Visual Materials

Photographs of Edison employees

Description: A miscellaneous assortment of group photographs of Edison employees and employees of Edison predecessor companies. Photographs of workers from a variety of locations and departments. Some photographs are accompanied by employee identification.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1906 - 1950s
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.
Rights: Copyright Southern California Edison. Certain uses require permission from Southern California Edison, contact reference@huntington.org for information.

Edison employee album of Big Creek scenes

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Snapshots and real photo postcards compiled by Edison Employee, Bert Clickenger (1884-1964) of workers and facilities related to Big Creek. Some of the snapshots have captions and notes. The real photo postcards are identified.

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Edison employee family album of Big Creek project

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Album of snapshots compiled by unidentified Edison employee with scenes of Big Creek camp and employees engaged in various recreational activities. Photographs accompanied by decorative hand drawn flourishes as well as identifications, poems, and verse. Many of the images focus on Camp 63 of Big Creek.

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Series 3. Employee Records

Manuscripts

This series contains Southern California Edison's employee records and includes booklets, brochures, correspondence, manuals, minutes, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, Edison Choir sheet music, and other materials. Much of the material pertains to accident prevention, employee safety, and benefits. A significant portion of this series consists of items documenting the activities of the Edison Masonic Club and predecessor Masonic clubs. Included are historical notes about the club, a club history, meeting minutes, and miscellaneous materials. There are also two folders containing printed and bound agreements with unions representing Edison workers. These agreements predate and postdate the 1953 strike against Edison. This series does not contain personnel records. Files are arranged alphabetically by title, and chronologically thereafter.

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Edison employee album of Big Creek [?] scenes

Visual Materials

Snapshots by Edison employee, Lynn Harrington, of hydroelectric project, possibly of Big Creek, scenery, and group gatherings. A few pictures are identified. There are at least two pictures of Harrington.

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Panoramic photographs of Edison employee meetings and gatherings

Visual Materials

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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Employee album of Big Creek staff and operations

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Various views of Big Creek staff and operations with handwritten captions by an Edison employee who appears throughout as "myself" or "4717," the number that appears on his belt buckle (see p. 53 and p. 16) Portrait of a woman named Marie Riba on cover. Snapshot photographs of employees at work, on outings and hikes in the mountains, on a honeymoon automobile trip to Santa Barbara and San Diego, and at parties.

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Photographs of Edison employees

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