The 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.
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.
Zonder titelPhotograph depicts a landscape perspective of Germansen Placers including the pipeline.
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective of Germansen Placers including the pipeline.
Photograph depicts a two horse driven wagon being pulled off a snowy bank onto a gravel road amidst 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 two men driving a loaded two horse driven wagon as it traverses through a river that runs through a forest landscape.
Photograph depicts a loaded dogsled being pulled by four sled dogs against a winter forest backdrop.
Photograph depicts six sled dogs and three men standing beside a loaded two horse wagon on a forest road.
Photograph depicts four men posed within or beside two horse drawn carriages in a winter forest landscape. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Skookum Davis (?) Bert McCorkell, Bert McDonald - Coming out Nov. 10th, 1934"
Photograph depicts eight men building a wooden bridge over a section of lake. A mining (?) work camp is visible in a foreseted background.
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 an unidentified man standing in a large mining ditchline.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside dismantled pieces of mining equipment, in the background is a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing in a large mining ditchline.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside a ditchline filled with water.
Photograph depicts a cut ditch into tertiary gravel, with a wooden mining (?) structure and a forest landscape in the background.
Photograph depicts a car, two bulldozers and some steel drums at the side of a mining access road in the winter.
Photograph depicts a gas shovel located in a large ditch amidst a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a hillside and mining equipment covered in heavy snow.
Photograph depicts the construction of a wood planked flume 8ft wide around the side of a mountain.
Photograph depicts the construction of a wood planked flume 8ft wide around the side of a mountain.
Photograph depicts a steamshovel at work along a cleared forest area.
Photograph depicts a man panning for gold in a shallow river with a forested landscape in the background. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Jas Ferguson testing values by panning - Germansen Placer Ltd."
Photograph depicts two men aboard a two horse driven sleigh stopped on a snow covered path. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "The Top of Bald Mountain"
Photograph depicts a person operating a bulldozer to clear a path through the snow in a forested landscape.
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 landscape perspective featuring construction of two water flumes across a narrow valley between a forested landscape.
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 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 snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Logs. on Railway".
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 bulldozer driving down a shallow ditchline with a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing beside a ditchline filled with water.
Photograph depicts the front end of a bulldozer being operated by an unidentified man in front of a forested background.
Photograph depicts unidentified man standing near mining ditches.
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 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 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.