Collection consists of a photograph album from A. H. Holland, a British Columbia Land Surveyor, that was created while working in the Central Interior, the Cariboo, the Chilcotin and southeast British Columbia. This album visually documents steamboat, stagecoach and horse travel in British Columbia and also captures the prepatory work and dawn of the age of rail travel.
Zonder titelSeries consists of a photograph album from A. H. Holland, a British Columbia Land Surveyor, that was created while working in the Central Interior, the Cariboo, the Chilcotin and southeast British Columbia. This album visually documents steamboat, stagecoach and horse travel in British Columbia and some First Nation village sites. It also captures preparatory survey work and dawn of the age of rail travel.
Photograph depicts five men standing in a field of cut hay. Some men are holding scythes, buildings, forest and rolling hills in background.
Photograph depicts buildings, field, and fenced areas with forest in the background.
Photograph depicts man (presumably A.H. Holland) with survey pole standing next to loaded pack horse.
Photograph depicts 5 men in a field using scythes to cut grain.
Photograph depicts a scow loaded with three or more pack horses with men attending. The scow is crossing the river, guided by a cable. There is one building, and forest in the background.
Photograph depicts a man standing on a high ladder pouring grain from a sack to a tarp below. Sacks of grain in the foreground, field and trees in the background.
Photograph depicts twelve or more horses loaded with packs. Three or more men attending. There is a telegraph pole in the midground, treed low hills in the background. The horses are standing in a field.
Photograph depicts six horses harnessed to a center pole. Three men attend the horses, two men with pitchforks stand atop a wagon loaded with cut grain stocks in the background.
Photograph depicts a large semicircle of tethered horses. Loaded packs are arranged near each horse. Men, boys and a border collie are in the foreground, low mountains in the background.
Photograph depicts a group of horses in process of being loaded with packs. Four or more men attend. There is a canvas tent, open fire and more people in the background.
Photograph depicts several horses enclosed in log a large log carrel. Horses are loaded with packs, three or more persons appear to be unloading them.
Photograph depicts two people and a dog team on a snowy river bank with a narrow passage of open water and a snowy bluff in the background.
Photograph depicts a four-dog team harnessed to a loaded sleigh. Two people stand near the loaded sleigh on a snowy forest path.
Photograph depicts a bird's eye view of a large river, forest and mountains in the background. On the river's edge there is a scow with several persons standing on it.
Photograph depicts a long scow on the river's edge, supplies are being loaded. There is a smoke rising from the wood stove at the center of the scow. Several men are assisting.
Photograph depicts several men on a long scow loaded with supplies amidst swirling deep river water.
Photograph depicts several men on the river's edge pulling on a long rope attached to a large scow downstream.
Photograph depicts a river, riverbank, forest and treed rolling hills.
Photograph depicts a scow with several men in the center of a river.
Photograph depicts a large river from a bird's eye view, forest and rocks on the water's edge, snow capped mountains in the background.
Photograph depicts rolling hills with dry vegetation and river in the background.
Photograph depicts rolling hills with dry vegetation and river in the background.
Photograph depicts 2 large covered wagons pulled by a team of six horses, dry vegetation in the foreground & background.
Photograph depicts a team of four horses harnessed to a wagon loaded with freight and people.
Photograph depicts a view possibly from a stage coach, fences and rolling hills with dry vegetation in the background.
Photograph depicts stage coach pulled by four horses, loaded with freight and people, a large building in the background.
Photograph depicts a road bordered by people, building and fences.
Photograph depicts a road bordered by people, building and fences. A stage coach is situated on the side of the road.
Photograph depicts view from atop a stage coach, a team of horses pulling a stage coach approaching.
Photograph depicts a side view of 2 stage coaches meeting on a narrow dirt road.
Photograph depicts a bird's eye view of a chasm and forested hills.
Photograph depicts two freighting stages passing. View is from atop one of the stages.
Photograph depicts a stage coach harnessed with six horses, a fence and a log building in the background.
Photograph depicts construction of a possible steamboat at Soda Creek.
Photograph depicts a view of a small village near a river, a narrow dirt road boarders the river.
Photograph depicts a cluster of buildings including a church, a river in the foreground, rolling hills in the background.
Photograph depicts a group of men and dogs standing outdoors in the sunshine.
Photograph depicts a long row of buildings bordering a river. A scow is anchored near the river bank.
Photograph depicts a long row of buildings bordering a river.
Photograph depicts a group of men standing near a building with the sign, "James Reid Ltd. General Merchants". There are a few fences and buildings in the background.
Photograph depicts a steamboat on the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a narrow canyon on the Fraser River.
Photograph depicts a view of rough river waters from the deck of a steamboat.
Photograph depicts a steamboat on the Fraser River with a full view of the paddles.
Photograph depicts view from the steamboat deck approaching Cottonwood Canyon.
Photograph depicts a view from the steamboat deck approaching Cottonwood Canyon.
Photograph depicts misty waters and small islands in the river.
Photograph depicts Fort George Canyon from a lofty view. A small building is situated on the river's edge.