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Big Creek - Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel

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Description: Big Creek - [Construction on Florence Lake (Ward) Tunnel - Adit, Electric train, concrete batch cars, group photos, powder magazine, setting drills, firing switches, steam shovel, tunnel mucking, tunnel breakthrough, tunnel mess train, first round at intake portal, intake portal, outlet portal with flow, outlet flume washout; Camps 31, 60, 61, 62, 63 - Library, bath house, housing, Kangaroo Court, boxing match, tool sharpening shop, hospital, office, kitchen, cold storage, ice house, warehouse, dining room, sawmill, Editor's Party, transmission line, blacksmith shop; Huntington Lake - Daw's Cottage; Cascada - Recreation Hall.]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920-1927
Call number: photCL SCE 13 - vol 024
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Florence Lake Tunnel No. 6 (Ward Tunnel): Photographs of Electric train, concrete batch cars, group photographs of laborers, powder magazine, setting drills, firing switches, steam shovel, tunnel mucking, tunnel breakthrough, tunnel mess train, first round at intake portal, intake portal, outlet portal with flow, outlet flume washout; Camps 31, 60, 61, 62, 63, including library, bath house, housing, boxing match, tool sharpening shop, hospital, office, kitchen, cold storage, ice house, warehouse, dining room, sawmill, the Editors' Party, transmission line, blacksmith shop; Huntington Lake: Daw's Cottage.
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