The Alexander Manson Mining Collection consists of 133 loose photographs documenting various aspects of the mining industry in Northern British Columbia between 1930-1940. Photographs show images of Manson Creek and Germansen Landing.
Manson, AlexanderThe images comprising the Photographs Series of the Alex Manson Mining Collection, document various mining related activities such as: road construction, mining sites, mining equipment, individuals involved in various aspects of the mining industry in Northern British Columbia, digging of ditchlines, bridge construction, surveying, extraction techniques, Germansen Placer pipelines, mining camps and the transportation of mining equipment by bulldozer and horse and wagon.
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Logs. on Railway".
Photograph depicts a river and flume constructed to bring water to the monitors used in hydraulic mining.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel in the midground and stacks of chopped wood piled in front of it, both situated in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts a ditch cut through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a shove digging a large ditch into a hillside beside a forested landscape.
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.
Wooden piles driven into a river bed, pile driver visible in background. Handwritten annotation on recto reads: "South fork intake before gate built, pile driven to refusal".
Photograph depicts a gas (?) shovel digging out a ditchline through a forested landscape.
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 the front end of a steam shovel in a cleared gravel area in front of a forested landscape.
Photo depicts a large sled loaded with large metal tubing, a tent and a pile driver(?)
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective featuring construction of two water flumes across a narrow valley between a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing in a large mining ditchline.
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective featuring a water flume in the shape of a horseshoe built along a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Horshoe Creek"
Photograph depicts a shovel digging a deepcut along in the hillside within a forested landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "1 yd. P&H 36 ton shovel (one of the deepest cuts) with a ditch bottom 15ft.
Photograph depicts a steam shovel operating in a ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "steam shovel sec. #3 July 15th"
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 wooden flume being constructed along a hillside through a forest landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "Flume over pile trestle, sec. #1, 8ft. wide"
Photograph depicts the front end of a steam shovel in a cleared gravel area in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a caterpillar tractor and a bulldozer working on a ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on recto reads: "see #1 cut go wide on top". Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "caterpiller tractor and bulldozer working on ditch"
Photograph depicts a shovel at work widening a ditch cut through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts ditch constructed on the hill of a forested environment. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "View showing part [of] new ditch - fully logged and braced, Germansen Placer Ltd."
Photograph depicts a wooden trestle constructed along a steep cliff through a wooded environment. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Trestle work through upper canyon 1/2 mile below intake, Germansen Placer Ltd."
Photograph depicts the front end of a bulldozer being operated by an unidentified man in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A stack of logs".
Photograph depicts a ditch and wooden flume located in a snow covered forest landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "The new ditch and flume at upper Faloggan (?)"
Photograph depicts a wide ditchline cut into a rocky landscape with a forested region located in the far background.
Photograph depicts a wide ditchline cut into a rocky environment with a line of trees located in the background.
Photograph depicts a shallow ditch cut into rocky terrain that leads through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a bulldozer driving down a shallow ditchline with a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts a sideview of a shovel digging a ditch through a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "One of deepest cuts, 1 yd. P & H, shovel 36 ton, floor of ditch is 15 feet length, 10 miles". Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Germansen shovel in deep cut on ditch construction 1939".
Photograph depicts a line of wooden piles that have been driven into the ground and lead through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "part of flume construction piles driven down to refusal".
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 a gravel road carved into the forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a hillside in front of a pile driver located in a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts several long logs laid out across a wide ditch with a forest landscape in the background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Early in April trees put across ditch to make footing for caterpillar tractor".
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 depicts four men standing in front of a float plane on the shore of a lake surrounded by their bags. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Leaving Stuart Lake by plane, Left to right: Mason, Keith, Ferguson, MacMillan (Pilot)"
Photograph depicts the front end of a bulldozer being operated by an unidentified man in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel in the midground and stacks of chopped wood piled in front of it, both situated in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts unidentified man standing near mining ditches.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing at the top of water-filled ditchlines and holding onto surveying (?) equipment.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is 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 a large water-filled ditchline in front of a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing in a large mining ditchline.