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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: July 1911 - January 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.
Rights: Copyright Southern California Edison. Certain uses require permission from Southern California Edison, contact reference@huntington.org for information.

Construction and operation photos of Long Beach Steam Plant #1

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Construction and operation photos of Long Beach Steam Plant #1, (assembly turbine #1, generator room, boiler room, transformer house, overview from top of [Salt Lake] Bridge), etc.

photCL SCE 13 - vol 081

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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.

photCL SCE

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: boiler installation, pile driving, train derailment at steam station, specimens of marine growth from intake tunnel, overviews of Steam Station, extension of Plant No. 1, dismantling old Long Beach Gas Plant, foundation work for Unit No. 2.

photCL SCE

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Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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Construction and operation of Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1: early construction shots showing pile driving for foundation, stack construction, intake excavation, overviews from bridge.

photCL SCE

Long Beach Steam Station, Plant #1

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Long Beach Steam Station, Plant #1 - Transformer Room addition from top of old Boiler Room.

photCL SCE 02 - 02056

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3

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Long Beach Steam Station No. 3 turbo installation, Boiler No. 50, laying 15" gas main, driving piles for Unit No. 11, take-off towers, towers at channel crossing, installing transformers and oil switches, switching garden, [cooling water] intake, gauge board, switchboard, station overviews, turbine deck, boiler interior, defective pump, evaporators, chemistry lab, fuel oil pump room, exciter, piles ready for steel.

photCL SCE

Long Beach Steam Plant No. 1

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