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Big Creek

Description: Big Creek - Huntington Lake - Flow Pipeline - Taken during construction - from Tunnel Portal-Basin.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 9/25/1913
Call number: photCL SCE 03 - 00375
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