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San Bernardino Steam Plant album

Description: Photograph of San Bernardino Steam Plant, including excavation for machinery, plant and boiler construction, turbine installations and assembly, and transmission lines. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911 - 1912
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.

Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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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.

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: assembly turbine No. 1, generator room, boiler room, transformer house, overview from top of [Salt Lake] Bridge.

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California Electric Power Corp. - Southern Sierras Power Co. Hydroelectric Projects (vol 136)

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Constructing San Bernardino Steam Plant, transformer assembly, water tank, boiler construction, turbine assembly, switchyard; Facilities at Bakersfield, Goldfield, Tonopah, Owens River, Elsinore, San Bernardino, San Jacinto, Corona, Hemet, Perris, El Centro, and Coachella; Bishop hydroelectric facilities and construction of South Lake Dam; Nevada mining operations; Gem, Tioga, Saddlebags, Agnew, Summit, Rhinedollar, Crystal, Mono, and Lundy Lakes; Mill Creek hydroelectric construction, including Mill Creek [Lundy] Powerhouse, wood-stave flowline, penstock, Lundy Dam. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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San Bernardino Substation construction photographs and report

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Photograph report on the construction of the San Bernardino Substation and Operating building by Southern Sierras Power Company in 1928. Photographer: Southern Sierras Power Company.

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 construction, including superheater, header, boiler assembly, skylight over Turbo Room, flue opening, stacks, view of all 3 plants, installing 83 ton transformers, Turbine Room interior, circulating water pumps, condenser installation, boiler interior, aerials of station, concrete girder reinforcement, exciter, oil switches, switch garden, control house, screen wells.

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 2 and No. 3

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Condenser installation, stacks, south elevation poured, turbo installations, turbo room construction, boiler room construction, bricking the boilers, exterior shot complete with 8 stacks on Plant 2, control room. Piles placed for Plant 3 construction, moving above ground fuel storage tank by floating.

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