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Athabasca Echo fonds
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Physical description
1101 photographs. -- 20 cm of textual records. -- 4 sketches.
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Biographical history
The Athabasca Echo was first published on July 12,1928 as a local community newspaper in Athabasca, Alberta. The newspaper discontinued publication on August 12,1986. The publishers were William Conquest (1928-1942), Byron W. Bellamy (1942-1954), Evelyn Rita Rogers (1954-1978) and Robert MacGregor (1978-1986).
Custodial history
Scope and content
The fonds consists of materials created by the Athabasca Echo newspaper between 1949 and 1957. The fonds consists of Christmas cards, cancelled cheques, cash receipt book, tax record book,employee time sheets, and petty cash book of the Athabasca Echo. The fonds also consists of 1101 photographs created between 1952 and 1972. There is a framed pen and ink sketch of each editor.
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- The material is in English.
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Microfilm copies of all issues of the Athabasca Echo are available at the archives.
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There are no restrictions on access.
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File list available.
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Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
General note
Photographs # 3431-4756 have been digitized. 410 photographs were weeded from this collection when it was rehoused in new albums. Three of the pen and ink sketches were created by Margo Kindt in 1979. One was created by Evoy.<br><br>Record No. 85.17 (Box 2) , 86.17 (sketches # 2584-2587);87.40 (photos# 3245-4774)<br><br>
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- Athabasca Echo (Subject)