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Delphus Suprise fonds
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604 photographs : 495 b&w prints, 109 b&w negs;.098 m of textual records;1 map
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Delphus Arthur Suprise was an American who worked on the construction of the Alaska Highway. He took many photographs and kept a scrapbook of the construction.
Custodial history
Donated to the Yukon Archives by Russ Gettleman.
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The fonds consists of material created or acquired by Delphus Suprise during the construction of the Alaska Highway. Included are photographs, a scrapbook with photographs and newspaper clippings, a map of the Alaska Highway, poems, personal papers and two pamphlets.
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Some of the negatives correspond to the prints.
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