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Industry photograph collection

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  • Collection
  • [ca. 1932-1936]

The collection consists of photographs that were part of unidentified collections and were organized under the title "Industry" for research and exhibit purposes. Photograph subjects include mining, boat building, agriculture, trapping and trading, fishing, and construction of the Alaska Highway. Many are images of mining in the Klondike Gold Fields: busy hand mining scenes with open cut mines, sluice boxes and flumes on Bonanza, Gold Hill, Sulpher Creek, Dominion Creek and Quartz Creek, rocking on Gold Hill and King Solomon?s Hill, hydraulicing on French Hill and Lovette Gulch, and underground mining on Eldorado #16. Klondike scenes also include dredges in Bonanza Basin, Canadian No. 1 at Bear Creek 1902, Dredge #3, a small dredge on Hyatt Creek, construction of a dredge, and a view of Canadian Klondike Mining Co. headquarters, in 1906 during the construction of the Klondike Syphon. There are a number of images of the open pit at Pueblo Mines, mining in the Atlin area with water wheels and placer mining in Alaska. Boat building includes a sternwheeler under construction at the Whitehorse shipyard, whipsawing boat lumber and boat building at Bennett. The agriculture photographs include a vegetable garden, a Northern Commercial Company (NCCo.) truck filled with cabbages, Acklen?s garden in Dawson City, the first load of hay harvested at Fairbanks, and images of apples, lettuce, cabbage, potatoes and a 10 foot high tomato plant in Dawson City. Other industry photographs in this collection include a trapper?s outfit in 1911, native men trading at Dawson City, a sled full of caribou in Fairbanks, a mule train alongside the Klondike River, the Northern Lumber Co. in the Klondike Valley, a portable sawmill used by engineers on the Alaska Highway, original bridge near Slims River during building of Alaska Highway, fish wheel on the Yukon River and interiors of Zaccarelli?s Bookstore and the Monte Carlo. Identified photographers are Larss and Duclos, Cantwell, Adams and Larkin, Darms, E.O. Ellingsen and E.A. Hegg.

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MacBride Museum map collection

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  • Collection
  • [ca. 1932-1936]

Collection includes hand drawn map of Chilkoot Trail, Northwestern Canada, GSC maps of Northwest Shakwak Valley and Yukon Territory, the latter showing many winter roads and communities which no longer exist, Hudson's Bay Company Peace River District, Teslin, Kluane Corridor Regional Study, an early map of the Yukon and a Rand McNally map of Canada.

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MacBride Museum research project collection

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  • Collection
  • [ca. 1932-1936]

The collection consists of audio tape cassettes recorded by various researchers recruited to conduct projects for the MacBride Museum in 1988 and 1993. Includes interviews of Whitehorse area residents by researchers Pam Braun and Lori Jackson relating to the identification of Museum artifacts and photographs of unknown origin, and interviews by Helene Dobrowolsky created in the course of the Whitehorse Copper Belt Research Project to interpret Yukon mining history. The collection is divided into the following: Artifacts Project (1988), Photograph Identification Project (1993), Whitehorse Copper Belt Research Project (1993), Geological Sample Identification Project (1993), and Mining Artifacts Project (1993).

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Unidentified album (#1) fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1932-1936]

The fonds consists of an album chronicling one young family?s mining and recreational activities in the area of Atlin, British Columbia from approximately 1932 to 1936. The mining scenes include images of flumes, riffles, water pipelines, hydraulicing, underground mining, a washing plant, bulldozers, a tram line system carrying buckets, men working and a view of a mine site. Recreational activities include a man with a dog team, women in a garden, picnics, people swimming, automobiles, a young family?s camping and boating excursions aboard the cabin cruiser Aurora, a parade with decorated vehicles, and the sternwheeler Tutshi and passengers. Other subjects include scenic views of mountains and lakes in summer and winter, a small house on a lake, Atlin Lake, Tagish Lake, a cabin at Sucker Lake, Ben-My-Chree and a bush plane. Some of the photographs have captions written on the reverse.

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Unidentified album (#3) fonds

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  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1932-1936]

The fonds consists of photographs which illustrate traditional placer mining techniques, probably from Alaska. Pictures include water flumes, sluice boxes, water monitors, men with picks and shovels, and a winter scene on a trail with a fully loaded sledge near a campfire. Also included are four summer time scenes; a camp with a canoe and tent, and men cooking flapjacks and meat over open fires. Captions can be found on the backs of loose photographs in the album. People identified include Charlie Thompson and Tom Blais.

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