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The permanent housing built at the town of Big Creek seemed luxurious compared to the tents and bunkhouses provided for the construction forces

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Title: The permanent housing built at the town of Big Creek seemed luxurious compared to the tents and bunkhouses provided for the construction forces
Creator: Stone & Webster, photographer
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: The permanent housing built at the town of Big Creek seemed luxurious compared to the tents and bunkhouses provided for the construction forces. To this day, this village remains the nerve center of Edison operations in the Big Creek region. .
Type: image
Format: 383995 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier: 12 - 00034
232850
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5501
Subject: Hydroelectric power-plants
Construction
Labor housing
Snow
Place: Big Creek (Calif.)
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Story of Big Creek
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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