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    Long Beach Steam Station construction, Big Creek, Mill Creek, Santa Ana River, Big Bear Lake

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    Long Beach Steam Station No. 1 construction, interior of generator floor; man with divining rods; Kern River No. 3, including headquarters camp, plant site, river, Fairview Dam with fish ladder; Big Creek, including Huntington Lake, Huntington Lake Lodge, Dam 4, cottages, Powerhouse No. 8, road construction to Powerhouse No. 3; Santa Barbara facilities, including Substations, car barn, steam plants; Mill Creek No. 1, Santa Ana River No. 2 flowline, Santa Ana River No. 1 intake and siphon; Union Power Co. hydroelectric projects, such as multiple arch dam at Big Bear lake, tunnels and adits.

    photCL SCE

  • Big Creek - rivers & streams

    Big Creek - rivers & streams

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    Big Creek - rivers & streams, Powerhouse 2 interior, Cascada General Office, Huntington Lodge, Huntington Lake & Dam 1, Shaver Lake, PH #2, PH #8 interior & exterior, Dam 6 & Intake 3, PH #3; Vestal, Eagle Rock, Laguna Bell Substations; Mill Creek #1 exterior & interior; Kern River #3 exterior & interior, Kern River #1 interior; Long Beach Steam Plant #1; various executive portraits; and General Office at 3rd & Broadway.

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 056

  • Big Creek - Early Big Creek

    Big Creek - Early Big Creek

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    Big Creek - Early Big Creek [Substations; Big Creek - PH 1 and PH 2 penstock construction, Huntington Lodge & Lake, heavy snowfall, break in PH1 penstock joint, const. Dam #1 & gate tower, Dam 1 spilling, Dam #2 const., Dam #4 const., PH1 const., PH1 interior, PH2 const., PH2 after fire, PH2 interiors (Units & Transformers), unit install PH1, incline RR, railroad locomotives, Big Creek transmission line const.; Magunden Sub.; Kern T/L poles, line and RR wash out at Arroyo Seco; Long Beach Steam Plant; Los Angeles Aquiduct and Powerhouse; PL&P vehicles; Intake Azusa Plant, Azusa PH interior; Highgrove forebay & Powerhouse; Stone Castle; Sierra Powerhouse interior, operator's cottages; Pedley Powerhouse (ext. & int.), Mentone PH; Borel Powerhouse]

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 041

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    Long Beach Steam Station

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    Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 operational shots, turbine maintenance & repairs, broken blades on turbine stages, deposits on turbine blades, and continued construction for second half of Plant 3.

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 093

  • Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines

    Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines

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    Borel interior with Pelton-Francis turbines; Excavation for Big Creek Powerhouse #2; Huntington Lake construction for Trestle Dam 1, Dam 2; start of construction at Powerhouse #1 and Dam 4, installation of equipment at PH 1, penstock assembly, completion of Dam 4; construction of Big Creek PH 2; construction of Powerhouse #8, constructing road to PH 3, and Tule Powerhouse.

    photCL SCE 13 - vol 059

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    Long Beach Steam Station

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    Long Beach Steam Station - Plant 3 construction photos, superheater, header, boiler assembly, skylight over Turbo Room, flu 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 13 - vol 094