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- Archief
- Copied 1985 (originally created 1942-1943)
The fonds consists of 187 b&w negatives copied from an album of photographs taken and collected by William Preston in the Yukon. The photographs depict scenes at White Pass Station, Cowley and Whitehorse, Yukon. There are several excellent views of work crews digging and using snow plows to free the trains from snow drifts; snow sheds, flooding on the railway track, and pictures of the Whitehorse Roundhouse fire. There are views of the Bechtel Price Callahan Camp, of the various army companies and detachments, and photographs of typed condition reports that were issued for the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) line. Also included are street scenes of Whitehorse and pictures of various Whitehorse buildings; views of British Yukon Navigation Co. (BYNCo.) steamers (on the river and in dry dock), the BYNCo. warehouse, a series of pictures of a plane wreck of a plane at Carcross, and a series of northern lights photographs.
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