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Mary MacBride collection
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125 photographs : 122 b&w, 3 col.;.06 m of textual records
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Mary MacBride was born in Whitehorse in 1921 to Eva and William D. MacBride. She was the eldest of three children. Mary taught school in Carcross from 1940-1941. In 1942 she married Sheldon Gunn, a pilot with Northern Airways. He died in an airplane accident a short while later. In 1944 Mary worked in Pan Am's Whitehorse ticket office, and in 1950 was working as a stewardess out of Seattle. She worked for Pan Am in New York from 1953-1967 and as stewardess supervisor in San Francisco from 1967-1969. She married Ralph Botthof in 1967.
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The collection consists of original and copy prints of photographs collected by the MacBride family, and original and photocopied magazine and newspaper articles collected by Mary MacBride. The photographs show the MacBride family, relatives, and friends, including Jack Hulland, Ada Smith, Gudrun Erikson and Them Kjar. There are shots of airplanes, schools, and early homes in Whitehorse, as well as scenes of Atlin and Burwash. The collected articles are about air transport and plane crashes in Canada and Yukon prior to WWII, the construction of the Alaska highway, the drowning of Bob Smith and Laurence Pettigrew in Atlin Lake, photocopied passenger lists from the T.S.S. Prince Rupert and other coastal steamers, and poems, one of which is written by Mary's father, W.D. MacBride.
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- MacBride, William, ca. 1888-1973 (Subject)