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Men are lined up in wet January snow at Camp #2 to pick up their gold coins from the paymaster

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Title: Men are lined up in wet January snow at Camp #2 to pick up their gold coins from the paymaster
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: Even in deepest winter, with the fleshpots of Fresno seemingly a world away, payday was an important event in the lives of Big Creek's construction workers. These men are lined up in wet January snow at Camp #2 to pick up their gold coins from the paymaster.
Type: image
Format: 561867 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; A--8x10
Identifier: 12 - 00031
232847
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5504
Subject: Hydroelectric power-plants
Construction camps
Construction crew
Snow
Place: Cascada (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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