Samuel Galloway Hibben (1888-1972) was a pioneer in the field of applied electrical lighting. During his tenure as Director of Applied Lighting with the Westinghouse Corporation, Hibben was noted for redesigning the illumination of the Statue of...
Charles Franklin Potter (b. 1861) and his brother Isaac B. Potter (b. 1856), were legal and financial counselors with extensive business interests in Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, and California. They practiced law in New York before opening...
Founded by members of the Bixby and Flint families and their business partner, I. W. Hellman, in 1888, the Alamitos Land Company was first organized as a land sale company during the real estate boom of Southern California in mid 1880s. The company...
Colorado Street, downtown Pasadena, California. Photo taken from unidentified and undated book. The printed caption above the image reads: "A Pacific Electric car on Colorado Street near Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena stops for passengers. The car...
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Power Co. - A group of newspaper men, Reclamation Officials, and Representatives of Six Companies, Incorporated, at the Government Observation Platform overlooking the Hoover Dam site...
Southern California Edison (SCE) is the largest electric utility in California and one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric utilities, serving more than 13 million people in 15 counties of central, coastal and southern California. Based...
Partial map of California showing the early transmission line corridors belonging to Pacific Light and Power, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern Sierras Power Co., San Joaquin Light & Power, Sierra & San Francisco Power...
H2.2 - Home Electric Home Tour - All Electric Home of General Electric Co. - Newport Beach - exterior [on Newport Bay with small gaff-rigged yawl sailing by]
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp. - Rhyolite Sub., Temescal Rock Co. Substation, Banning Sub.; Bishop Creek Hydro - Plant #2, Plant #3, Plant #4, Plant #5, Plant #6, Reservoir #1 [South Lake or Lake Sabrina],...
California Electric Power Corp. - Nevada-California Electric Corp. - Map of Nevada-California Electric Co. Transmission Line from Victorville to Boulder (Hoover) Dam site with profiles, tower drawings (standard type "H", type "AL", type "T"...
The Cawston Ostrich Farm was established in 1886 by Edwin Cawston, a native of England. The farm was originally located in Norwalk, California. Cawston moved his ostriches to South Pasadena in 1896 along the banks of the Arroyo Seco and marketed...
Electric furnace in position at the Mount Wilson Observatory physical laboratory in Pasadena. Tubing is attached to the furnace and leads towards the floor. A white sheet is hung behind the furnace to provide a plain background.
A portion of the tube used for A.A. Michelson's velocity of light experiment from inside the house in Irvine. What appears to be an electric control box sits in front of the tube. The interior walls of the building are made from corrugated sheet...