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The most difficult of surveying assignments at Big Creek was to run levels and alignments for tunnels across the rugged terrain of the back country

Description: The most difficult of surveying assignments at Big Creek was to run levels and alignments for tunnels across the rugged terrain of the back country. Here, T.R. Bond and his party pose at an unidentified location, about 1912. [THIS IS NOT AN EDISON PHOTO! DO NOT USE THIS NEGATIVE FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM WILLIAM A. MYERS.]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: circa 1912
Call number: photCL SCE 12 - 00052
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