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Sybil Milligan fonds
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1 album : (119 photographs) : b&w prints;1 bound volume
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Sybil A. Milligan was originally from Montrose and Canon City, Colorado. She worked in Washington, DC and Bermuda before moving to Edmonton, Alberta and then to Whitehorse, Yukon in 1944-1945. Sybil left Whitehorse to transfer to Santa Fe, NM (as she told her friends) but she actually went to Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project. In 1950 she was working for the Atomic Energy Commission in Albuquerque, NM. After several years Sybil resigned and took a job with the Sandia Laboratory. Sybil Milligan died in Albuquerque in 1985.
Custodial history
The fonds was given to Teresa Chanatry by Sybil Milligan's sister, Jeanne Davis, after the death of Sybil. Mrs. Chanatry donated the fonds to the Yukon Archives in 1999.
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The fonds consists of an album of black and white photographs of Whitehorse, Carcross, Northwest Service Command Headquarters, Alaska Highway road construction and the transfer of Alaska Highway from the American government to the Canadian government. The photographs were taken by Sybil Milligan while she was working in Whitehorse, Yukon as part of the Northwest Service Command during the building of the Alaska Highway. The photographs include views of Sybil, her friend Teresa Sullivan (Chanatry) and other female personnel, interior shots of their offices, the mess hall and barracks, Miles Canyon, sled dogs, sternwheeler shipyards, and construction of the Alaska Highway. A small number of photos were possibly purchased and have captions identifying locations around Whitehorse and the Bechtel - Price - Callahan Camp (B.P.C. Camp). The fonds also contains a pamphlet, "The Alaska Highway - A Saga of the North", given to Sybil as a going away present when she left Whitehorse. Written on the pages are autographs and notes to Sybil by her colleagues.
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Teresa Chanatry fonds