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Photograph depicts a large water-filled ditchline in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing at the top of an empty wooden flume (?) situated at the top of a mountainside in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts a open mining site at the base of a mountain, forested landscape visible in background and unidentified mining equipment visible in the midground.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a wooden road beside a steamshovel in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a wooden road beside a steamshovel in front of a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts wooden roadways criss-crossing a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts four men and five sled dogs standing beside a horse-drawn wagon loaded with dog sleds with a forested landscape in the background.

Photograph depicts the front end of a steamshovel located on a rocky terrain with a forested landscape in the background.

Photograph depicts a distance perspective of a bulldozer pulling sleds loaded with large pipes and steel drums potentially heading for the mines for assembly.

Photograph depicts the construction of a wood planked flume 8ft wide around the side of a mountain.

Photograph depicts a flooded rocky terrain with a forest landscape in the background. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Flattened to grade by Bulldozer, ready for shovel to dig. Sec. #2. Ground still very wet. Frost just out."

Photograph depicts a section of cleared bedrock along a steep ditch.

Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work along a cleared forest area.

Photograph depicts a dirt road cut between two highbanks with a oil cans (?) stacked in the background between the banks.

Photograph depicts three(?) men standing in front of a pile driver at work along a dirt path.

Photograph depicts an access road leading through a forested environment.

Photograph depicts a wooden trestle designed for carrying water flumes. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Trestle work for carrying water flume - Germansen Placer Ltd"

Photograph depicts a man standing in the foreground of the photo on a wooden trestle that leads through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Tressle for carrying flume across Valley of South from Germansen Creek. This is continuous tressle for nearly 2000 feet. Maximum height 54feet."

Photograph depicts a large cut ditch in the forested landscape. Shovel visible in distance. Annotation on recto states: "Portoin(?) of sec. #1"

Photograph depicts a ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Sec. #4"

Photograph depicts a bulldozer transporting mining supplies (pipes) in a snow covered forest landscape.

Photograph depicts a bulldozer operating in a large ditch constructed within a forested landscape.

Photograph depicts three unidentified men standing in an old ditch cut through a forested environment. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "View along old ditch - brushed out & deepened, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts a bulldozer convoy freighting supplies into camp in winter.

Photograph depicts a wood trestle constructed in a cleared forest area. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Trestle nearing completion across valley of south fork of Germansen Creek".

Photograph depicts a wooden trestle under construction along a hillside within a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Trestle work three (?) Upper Canyon 200 yards below intake, Germansen Placer Ltd."

Photograph depicts a gas (?) shovel digging a ditchline through a forested area.

Photograph depicts the front end of a steam shovel in a cleared gravel area in front of a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Steam Shovel"

Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on the side of a rocky cut in a wooded landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "compressor on rock cut sec. #4"

Photograph depicts a wide ditchline cut into a rocky landscape with a forested region located in the far background.

Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on a wooden flume located in a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph states: "flume".

Photograph depicts three piles of stacked lumber located in a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Lumber for flumes. Co. has its own sawmill"

Photograph is a printed postcard depicting a rock slide and creek near Stewart B.C.

Photograph depicts workers sitting in the back of a truck at the construction site for the Pacific Northern Gas pipeline from Summit Lake to Kitimat.

Photograph depicts the proposed site for a hydro power project on Klemtu Lake with rock sill outlet to creek.

Photograph depicts two men beside the creek below the lake outlet at the proposed site for the hydro power project on Klemtu Lake.

Photograph depicts the lumber yard at Peden Hill sawmill, likely after the fire that burnt down the first mill at that location.

Photograph depicts two men on a log deck, possibly at Peden Hill sawmill.

Photograph depicts workers cutting timber with a lomen planer at Peden Hill sawmill.

Photograph depicts a freight truck carrying timber at Peden Hill Sawmill.

Attached description: Both the Columbia Cellulose Sulphite mill and the Skeena Kraft mill are shown in this aerial view. Woodroom No. 2 is shown at the left, and the main buildings of the sulphite mill in center. The right centre area of the picture shows the new 750 t/d Skeena Kraft mill. Skeena Kraft is the largest single-line pulp mill in operation in the world. In the foreground is the fishing village of Port Edward. The Integration of chip manufacturing and power plants provides the mills with common service facilities. Watson Island is approximately 11 miles from the city of Prince Rupert, which now has a population of about 17,000 people.

Attached description: The operator's cabin is visible behind the Colby 70-ton bridge crane grapples as it lifts a bundle of logs to the breakdown deck. In the background, a boomboat brings another bundle into position for pickup from the holding bay inside the pond formed by the dock.

Item is a diagram of the bleachery and washing portion of the pulp mill.

Item is a diagram of the digesters of the pulp mill.

Item is a diagram of the filter plant and lime kiln of the mill.

Attached description: This picture shows the 240-inch cantilevered fourdrinier operating in the Skeena Kraft mill. It includes a suction press in the first position and two grooved presses in the second and third positions. The fourdrinier has a 37-foot forming length and is equipped with 25 table rolls, seven suction boxes, a Potabelt and forming boards. It is also equipped with a 30-inch diameter dandy roll, wier shower, 50-inch diameter vacuum couch with a presser roll.

Attached description: The world's largest airborne Flakt drier, manufactured by SF Products of Canada, is in operation in the 750 t/d Skeena Kraft mill. The pulp sheet, 228 inches wide, makes 23 passes through the drier in just over eleven minutes. The picture shows the huge laminated beam used in this section of the mill. The building is bright and well-ventilated, providing excellent working conditions for the operating and maintenance personnel. In the foreground, the cutter-layboy is in operation.