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Caption: Cache Meadows on the summit Kubicek Pass, 13th July. The razor edge in the centre is Mt. Kubicek, in honour of Frank's pilot. The dumps are seperate being provisions for different months. Item is a photograph of two men standing in a patch of snow within a valley; Mt. Kubicek is visible in the background. Bob and self (Jim McKenzie?) identified.

Caption: Wee Willie Camp [#2, #16, #18] Wee Willie is a rock rabbit friend of ours. Trees: Balsams. Camp at timber-line west-end Kubicek Pass. This is taken during the Indian Summer ("8 days"); 28th Sept.; in the spring the hillside here was a maze of flowers.

Caption: Our small friends: Porkie (porcupine) above timber-line.

Caption: Travels of a mush-hound during part of 1935. 50-50; Scot-Irish; Adela-Tony. Anne Hwthorne Pateson, Durieu, B.C. Item is a photograph of a little girl standing by a veranda.

Caption: Our small friends: The ptarmigan that used to bring his wife to see us. His bright plumage is her protection.

Caption: Our small friends: the ground-hog, whistler, marmot. Sentinel of the glen.

Caption: Domestic happiness. The baby being attended to. Corner of reflector showing. Caribou meet hanging to get smoked. Item is a photograph of a man preparing food (?) on a plate by the campfire.

Caption: Frank's sixth cup of coffee. It will eat not so badly; Frank will take the burnt part, so Bob, cheer-up. Item is a photograph of Frank Swannell (left) drinking coffee beside the campfire while Bob (the cook) stirs something in a pot.

Caption: Backpacking. Usual load 60-65lbs. We carried a spring balance. Water cooling system. Item is a photograph of 2 survey crewmen trekking through water with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Backpacking. Usual load 60-65lbs. We carried a spring balance. The smile is natura.. Item is a photograph of 2 survey crewmen trekking down a slope with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Backpacking. Frank liked his load low. Bob and I prefered [sic] ours high. Item is a photograph of Frank Swannell and another survey crewman trekking up a grassy slope; each with packsacks located at different points on their backs.

Caption: Backpacking: snow cooled. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen trekking up a snowy slope with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Bob. I'm eclipsed by the tree. On the trail; note the blaze on the tree. Item is a photograph of a man, Bob, leaning against a large tree, a packsack is on his back and a pipe is in his mouth.

Caption: It is better to have rested, but have to rise; than not to have rested at all. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen (one kneeling and one bent over) taking a brief rest with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: "On PGE Railway, B.C. between Lillooet and Clinton. Young cayuses, evening snack on the track."
A "cayuse" is a pony.

Caption: The actors aren't poseing.

Caption: Left by snow-slides. Another word you great unshaved. Some animal had dened up here last winter. Item is a photograph of one man sitting atop a pile of tree debris left by snow-slides, while another looks up at him from below.

Caption: Left by snow-slides. There are many of these in Duti Valley. Item is a photograph surveying the devastation left by snow-slides.

Caption: Left by snow-slides. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen standing amidst the devastation left by snow-slides.

Caption: Mt. McConachie named in honour of my pilot. F.C. Swannell, B.C.L.S., D.L.S., Instrument: Wild Theodolite reading to seconds. Frank on the job its self. Wall is for wind break, then we use the stones for the cairn. It's a toque not a night cap.

Caption: Robin Hood, or is it Sir Walter Raleigh. Item is a photograph of a survey crewman standing next to a tent in his long underwear, wearing a hat and holding a pipe. Clothes are drying on a log beside him that is being used to prop up the tent.

Caption: Bridge of Sighs, Black Creek. The water being rather fst, deep and black for wading, we feld the tree across. Bob and self (Jim Mackenzie?) identified. Item is a photograph of two men laden with packsacks, traversing a fallen log across a creek.

Caption: Duti Creek. Note the heavy vegetation. Trees mostly spruce.

Caption: Jack and the Beanstalk. Cache in a dead tree. Not one of our caches was touched by an animal, not even by squirrels or mice. Item is a photograph of a man securing a cache in a dead tree.

Caption: An evening caste [sic]. Kitchener Lake. Item is a photograph of a man fishing on a raft in the middle of Kitchener Lake.

Caption: Looking from the track. Fraser River; taken in the early morning hence the shadow. In the dry-belt little vegetation, sage brush, trees only where they catch the snow. Item is a landscape photograph over looking the Fraser River and surrounding canyon.

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.

Caption: Time exposure. St. Lawrence and his Grid. The stools Bob made out of his head; he must be thinking up an arm-chair. Item is a photograph of two men each with a foot on a hand-made stool, standing by the cook tent.

Item is a photograph of two men standing by a stone cairn, each with packsacks on their backs. One man points while the other man looks in the direction being pointed to.

Caption: Arctic-Pacific divide; To the Pacific (written on left side of photo); To the Arctic (writtn on the right side of the photo); Timber-line valley, lovely open country to live and travel in.

Caption: Pork and beans may do for mere mortals but goats and beans is the food of the gods. Item is a photograph of two dead goats laying side by side in the snow; a rifle has been placed between them.

Caption: Weary Willies, Duti Valley. Bob (left) and self (Jim Mackenzie? -right)identified. Item is a photograph of two survey crewmen standing amongst fallen trees with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Weary Willies, Duti Valley. Frank(left) and self (Jim Mackenzie? -right)identified. Item is a photograph of two men standing in a forested area with packsacks on their backs.

Caption: Sourdoughs. Light and flaky, brown and tasty; hotcakes that never go cold. Self (Jim Mackenzie? - left) and Bob, or J.R.C. Hewitt, B.C.L.S. Item is a photograph of two men seated by a campfire. One man is holding a cup of coffee, while the other is cooking hotcakes on a pan.

Caption: Who would have believed it!! I hope your sister isn't worrying about you. Item is a photograph of a bearded survey crewman standing with axe in hand next to a rocky cairn.

Caption: Looking from the track. Fraser River; taken in the early morning hence the shadow. In the dry-belt little vegetation, sage brush, trees only where they catch the snow. Item is a landscape photograph over looking the Fraser River and surrounding canyon.

Item is a photograph of a Pacific Great Easter railcar.

Item is a photograph of a man (Don?) leaning against a fence upon which two young girls are seated.

Caption: Clinton: Wood trestle bridge, to be replaced by a new structure also of wood; Coast Douglas fir. Item is a photograph of a train crossing a wooden trestle bridge.

Caption: Williams Lake Stampede, caribou country. Speed? Note the open country; semi dry belt. Item is a blurred photograph of a man on horse back.

Photographs depict two automobiles, ca. 1930, in Place de la Concorde, Paris, France.

Two men in leather fringed jackets and cowboys hats waiting with cups in hand while a third man tries to open a bottle with a spur. Annotation on verso: "What Mackenzie would call a regale, Steppi, Powers, Ramsey".

Photo depicts a man and two boys standing along the shores of the Peace River. Annotation on verso: "Peace ' North Pine' (?) Oct 27/29"

Photograph depicts five supply laden canoes and several unidentified survey crewmen along a lakeshore.

Annotation on verso: "Caribou on Ingenika Summit".

Photograph depicts a group of men at Kinaskan Lake. A.H. Phipps is the man standing ninth in from the right; he worked as a draughtsman for Gerry Andrews in the government's surveying division. Gerry Smedley Andrews is next to last on the right.

Photograph depicts a section of white water along the Cascade River. Annotation on versio: "August (?), Cassiar, Cascade River, A.H. Phipps".

Photograph depicts three men (including Al Phipps on the left, Frank Swannell in middle? and unidentified man on the right)engaged in laughter while standing in front of several steel drums. Drums are situated on a river bank in front of a Hudson's Bay Company sign (at Fort Grahame?)