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- Photographer unknown, The receiver (boiler) glows brilliantly during acceptance tests at Solar One in April, 1982, 1982. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
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- Photographer unknown, Chevrolet two-door sedan with wrecked front end, 1949. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
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- Joseph Fadler, Victorian home exteriors, 1966. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
From TECHNOLOGY / TECNOLOGÍA, curated by Peter Westwick:
Twentieth-century Los Angeles was built on technology: the railroads that brought millions of migrants, and the streetcars and internal-combustion automobiles that ferried them across an increasingly sprawling metropolis once they got there; the massive pumps that pushed water from the Central and Owens Valleys and the Colorado River to a thirsty city; and, yes, the massive, whirling turbines, driven by falling water or hot steam, and the hundreds of miles of transmission lines that fed the juice to power-hungry homes and factories and cast the city’s web across much of the American West.
More highlights from “Form and Landscape: Southern California Edison and the Los Angeles Basin, 1940–1990,” part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.
image captions:
Photographer unknown, The receiver (boiler) glows brilliantly during acceptance tests at Solar One in April, 1982, 1982. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in TECHNOLOGY / TECNOLOGÍA, curated by Peter Westwick.Photographer unknown, Chevrolet two-door sedan with wrecked front end, 1949. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in COLLISIONS / CHOQUES, curated by William Deverell.
Joseph Fadler, Victorian home exteriors, 1966. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Included in NOIR / RELATO NEGRO, curated by D. J. Waldie.