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Photograph depicts a large stack of cans. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "830 cases of tall cans".

Photograph depicts a wooden walkway with trees crowding close. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "a shady walk".

Photograph depicts a passenger steamship on open water, mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "S.S. Alameda".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking at the cannery built on the dock at Alert Bay. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Alert Bay cannery".

Photograph depicts sparse buildings, cleared forest, water in the foreground. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Alert Bay".

Photograph depicts an asian (likely Chinese or Japanese) man posing for a photograph. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Count no Account posing for his picture".

Photograph depicts a church or assembly hall. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Assembly hall, Kincoolith".

Photograph depicts a view of the creek looking up toward the treed mountain. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Barton's creek".

Photograph depicts a small boat tied near the shore. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Camp Scow BC Packers Naas River".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking at a boat house. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Boat House, taken in a rain shower".

Photograph depicts a view of the water looking toward forested and mountainous coastlines. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "BC Coast view".

Photograph depicts a bunkhouse style home. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Little grey home in the north".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward the coast line. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "California coast".

Photograph depicts a large passenger ship in dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Empress of Australia C.P.R. Pacific fleet".

Photograph depicts a passenger steamship with several passengers on deck. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Princess Pat leaving for Nanaimo".

Photograph depicts cannery machinery including a gang knife and engine. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gang knife and engine".

Photograph depicts small boats anchored near shore. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Cannery Tenders".

Photograph depicts three rows of small boats. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gathering a tow".

Photograph depicts four women, one child and one man posing for a photograph. Caption suggests man may be Japanese. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Natural poses with a Jap on -".

Photograph depicts a creek with steep canyon walls. On the right side of the photograph there is a pipeline on the length of the creek. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Canyon and pipeline".

Photograph depicts a man and two women standing on a boardwalk next to a building. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, " Native ladies and old Charley Ross".

Photograph depicts a house set apart, trees surround this house with mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "China House". Annotation suggests that this photograph may depict Chinese cannery worker housing at Nass Harbour Cannery.

Photograph depicts a view of a walkway and slew, power poles, city buildings and mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Portion of Rupert".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking toward several cannery buildings built on a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Dominion Cannery Skeena River, BC".

Photograph depicts a view of the ocean, water in the foreground, a peninsula jutting to the ocean and snow capped mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Double ID Point Naas River".

Photograph depicts several nets spread out on racks in the foreground, cannery and building in the midground, treed hillsides in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Drying net - on the racks".

Photograph depicts two men standing beside very tall fish drying racks. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Drying oolichans Fishery Bay, BC".

Photograph depicts a view of calm cove water, treed hillsides and mountains in the distance.

Photograph depicts a woman dressed in hip waders. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Edith, rigged for heavy weather".

Photograph depicts a large ship in open water. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Empress of Asia - Vancouver Harbour, BC".

Photograph depicts ten or more small fish boats tied near the wharf, tanks to hold fish are on the wharf. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Fish boat at the net tanks".

Photograph depicts a man of possible indigenous descent standing on the bow of a boat that is tied to the dock. Two children are standing on the dock in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Mr. Tho's Bryant. Some fisherman".

Photograph depicts a view from the water looking at several small homes near the water's edge. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Fishery Bay, BC".

Photograph depicts a spring salmon. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "A Spring Salmon four feet six inches long, 67 pound weight". Donor identifies the man in the photograph as Fred Jeffreys.

Photograph depicts a large elaborate church building. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gospel Mill at Kincoolith - Naas River".

Photograph depicts a view of the government dock at Prince Rupert, BC from the water. City buildings and treed mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Gov'mt dock at Rupert, BC".

Photograph depicts a railyard, dock and water. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Government dock, Rupert, BC".

Photograph depicts a snag boat tied to the dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Snag boat, Bobolink 22' Tide".

Photograph depicts six First Nations girls and two First Nations boy posing for a photograph. Handwritten annotation reads, "virtue and modesty - present & future".

Photograph depicts a small fishing boat near dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Halibut fishing boat".

Photograph depicts a small paddle wheel boat pulled up on the shore, a cluster of small buildings built near the water's edge. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Domicile De Charley- Echo Cove".

Photograph depicts a street view looking toward homes build next to a boardwalk, dirt street in the foreground, homes in midground, treed hillsides in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Houses at Naas Harbour".

Photograph depicts a view of Ice Berg Bay Nass River, BC. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Ice Berg Bay Naas River, BC".

Photograph depicts a row of housing built on piers at the water's edge, trees and snowy mountains in the distance. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Indian houses Naas harbour Cannery".

Photograph depicts three First Nations men and one First Nations woman standing on a dock. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Just-plain-natives".

Photograph depicts an adolescent boy standing on the edge of the water with a stick. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Jack Child".

Photograph depicts several home built on a piling at the water's edge, water in foreground, homes in midground and treed hillsides in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Jap houses Nass Harbour cannery".

Photograph depicts a man standing beside a rustic cart. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Job Clark and a punch hard cart". Job Clark (1890-1969) was Job Henry Clark, Chief Long Arm (Na-qua-oon), patriarch and leading hereditary chief of the Nishga tribe of the Nass River. Job Clark's father, Frank Roundy, was the founder of Alice Arm and owner and operator of the first operating mine there, the Esperanza. Roundy was also one of the founders of Silver City near which the present BC Molybdenum mine operates. Chief Job Clark had 6 children, one of whom was Frank Calder.

Photograph depicts a man and children of possible indigenous or asian descent standing beside a fishing boat. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Joe and fish boat".

Photograph depicts a cannery machine and wooden crates in the background. Handwritten annotation below photograph reads, "Johnston clincher machine".