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Pack dogs
2004.1.2.1.187 · Item · ca. 1930
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Item is a photograph of two large Husky dogs standing near a tent situated in a snowy wooded landscape. A pair of large snowshoes lean up against the tent.

Rafting Tzahny Lake
2004.1.2.3.40 · Item · ca. 1935
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Rafting Tzahny Lake, groundhop country. Stuck on the mud; glacial silt, we have more picturesque names for it. Half hour earlier Bob's pole stuck at the bottom and he left the raft for a good bath. Item is a photograph of two survey crewman poling a raft laden with supplies away from a mud flat.

Rafting-de-Lux
2004.1.2.2.26 · Item · ca. 1931
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Rafting-de-Lux. The arrival of Father Christmas. Item is a photograph of a survey crewman aboard a makeshift raft carrying a small coniferous tree.

Repairing the "J.C. Bruce"
2004.1.2.1.194 · Item · 24 May 1922
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Repairing the "J.C. Bruce" after striking a rock off Ragged Islands near Lund - May 24, 1922. Item is a photograph of two men working on the hull of a boat propped up on a rocky shore.

"Ride him Cowboy!"
2004.1.2.1.192 · Item · 1922 (?)
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: "Ride him- Cowboy!" (He didn't) (Dean River Exploration -'22). Item is a photograph of an unidentified man riding a bucking horse.

Running Finlay Rapids
2004.1.2.4.3 · Item · 1929
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Two unidentified men aboard a loaded canoe poling their way through the Finlay Rapids. Annotation on verso: "Finlay Rapids"; annotation on recto: "Finlay Rapids 1929".

2004.1.2.1.134 · Item · ca. 1930
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Shack over Hot Spring, Nascall Bay: Willie Hill, Andy Whitsen, Jack Stenstrum, Cupruin's [sic] Skipper and Engineer. Item is a photograph featuring three men looking out a small window of a wooden shack.

2004.1.2.2.42 · Item · ca. 1931
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Shorty going down the McGregor. These last winter scenes are from Skookum. Item is a photograph of "Shorty" Haynes standing in the snow against a mountainous backdrop with a pack sack on his back and snow shoes on his feet. Two pack dogs stand/sit by his side.

Shorty's log cabin
2004.1.2.1.190 · Item · ca. 1930
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Shorty's Log Cabin. The dogs, Mackenzie River huskies, Dick, Mutt, Pete and Mabel. Item is a photograph of three men seating on the ground next to a log cabin with four husky dogs.

2004.1.2.1.186 · Item · ca. 1930
Part of Phipps-Mackenzie Collection

Caption: Old tent Plaging River, 8x10. WE had 3 men and 5 dogs in it one night, when it was 40 degrees below: these were in the days before eiderdown sleeping bags. Item is a photograph of Skookum Davidson standing next to a tent situated in a snowy wooded landscape. A pair of large snowshoes lean up against the tent.