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The survey crews who laid out the initial development at Big Creek had to endure the most primitive living conditions

Description: The survey crews who laid out the initial development at Big Creek had to endure the most primitive living conditions. An unidentified crew of surveyor, rodman and axeman poses for a Sunday portrait near Halleck Creek, below Powerhouse No. 2. Dave Redinger lived in camps like this during the summer of 1914.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1914
Call number: photCL SCE 12 - 00051
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