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Photograph of two men in a car driving down a wooden road in Prince Rupert, BC. Printed annotation on recto reads: "First Motor Car in Prince Rupert, B.C., May 1909." Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Milwaukee Ore. Nov 7 1913. Dear Friends. Just a line. We are comming[sic] over Sunday if it don't rain to[sic] hard. How is Fredie? Hope he is alright. If you had other plans for Sunday you can phone us. Best regards from us both. Mrs Ed Herry[??]." Postcard is addressed to: "Mrs. J Reichard 3404 34 L. St. Vancouver Wash." Verso is affixed with a one cent American stamp. Postmark reads: "Milwaukee [illegible] Oreg."

Photograph depicts the First Narrows looking east from the base of Point Atkinson lighthouse.

Crews of sure-footed boom men in the Nass area, largely composed of Indigenous locals, work throughout the year on logging operations of Twinriver Timber Limited. Their homes are located near Nass River in the towns of Aiyansh, New Aiyansh, Greenville, and Canyon City.

Photograph depicts an older First Nations boy posed for the camera.

Part of a set of 41 original black & white photographs [1908-1933-?]) of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway line in BC depicting surveying crews, town sites (Prince Rupert and its port, Hazelton and Fort George), and First Nations Peoples.

Photograph depicts rows of grave markers in foreground, fence and buildings in background.

Handwritten annotation on verso “Indian cemetery, Reserve #1 South Fort George".

Photograph depicts First Nations children wearing button blankets while performing at a community banquet held at a Terrace school.

Photograph depicts First Nations dancer Leonard Goerge and his sister Gloria George in a crowd at the Smithers Bulkley Valley Exhibition. Photograph possibly taken at Telkwa.

Photograph depicts First Nations dancer Leonard George in front of a crowd of spectators at the Smithers Bulkley Valley Exhibition. Photograph possibly taken at Telkwa.

Image depicts an intricately painted drum. The location is uncertain.

Image depicts several unidentified individuals standing outside a building, and holding intricately painted drums; the woman on the right is Sue Sedgwick. The location is uncertain.

Image depicts several unidentified individuals standing outside a building and holding intricately painted drums; Kent Sedgwick is standing the middle of the group with Sue Sedgwick beside him. The location is uncertain.

Image depicts several unidentified individuals standing outside a building, and holding intricately painted drums. The location is uncertain.

Image depicts several unidentified individuals standing outside a building, and holding intricately painted drums; the woman on the right is Sue Sedgwick. The location is uncertain.

Photograph depicts a First Nations dugout canoe at Lillooet, BCIt is about 10 ft. long.

Photograph depicts a First Nations family with two older girls both holding young children, two young boys and one older boy all posed for the camera on a porch.

Photograph depicts a First Nations family with a mother, father, and two sons posed for the camera in a grassy area.

Photograph depicts a First Nations family consisting of a woman and four children standing underneath or next to a lean-to style tent. Meat is drying above the campfire and a horse's head is visible in the foreground.

Photograph depicts a family consists of a woman and four children standing underneath or next to a lean-to style tent. Meat is drying above the campfire and the head of a horse is visible in the foreground.

Photograph depicts a First Nations family with a mother, father, and young girl posed for the camera in front of the house.

Photograph depicts a First Nations family with five young children, three women, and a man seated on the ground in front of a tent with wooden houses and trees in the background.

Photograph depicts a First Nations family with a father, mother, two young girls, and a dog seated on a porch in front of a house.

Caption: "Indian's grave by Finlay River"

Photograph depicts an unmarked First Nations gravesite featuring two crosses at Moberly Lake.

Photograph depicts a First Nations graveyard that overlooked Anderson Lake. The cross in the foreground was dated 1918. A post with carving, near the fourth grave, was dated 1904.

A group of First Nations people in front of a tent possibly Fort Graham Band; note men in cowboy dress

Photograph depicts a man and woman standing on steps to a round tower in fenced area. Roofs of other buildings can be seen below on right; water and shore visible in background.

Printed on image: "Indian Jail, Metlatkla".

Photograph depicts a First Nations man standing next to a First Nations woman seated in a rocking chair in front of a house.

Photograph depicts a First Nations man standing beside a gravestone that reads: "In Memory of Jim, Jack and Sam."

Photograph depicts an unidentified First Nations woman and child sitting in an auditorium in an unknown location. Possibly related to Camapgnolo's Lake Placid Trip.

Photograph depicts First Nations people wearing button blankets in a crowd and looking up at Eli Gosnell’s Unity totem pole at a raising event in front of Nisga’a Elementary Secondary school in New Aiyansh.

Typed annotation on recto: "Indian Girl at Fort St. James Stuart Lake, B.C." Young woman smoking in front of unidentified building.

Image depicts a faded First Nations' rock painting.

Image depicts an unknown woman pointing towards some faded First Nations' rock paintings.

Photograph depicts an Indigenous stone carving. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "A. 79' W Bergson."

Photograph depicts a cluster of buildings near Fraser Lake. A fence and grasses in the foreground. Original photo title: "Indian Village at Fraser Lake." First Nations communities with territories overlapping Fraser Lake include Nadleh Whut'en and Stellat'en Nations.

Rocky shoreline featuring a small dwelling, totem pole, net rack, canoes pulled up to shore, barrels and boxes and a tent.

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Kunhalas [sic] at entrance to C--- Harbour”.

Typed caption glued to album page directly below photograph reads: "31. Indian Village near Fort Fraser." Photograph depicts a number of log homes situated near a river; a wooden bridge is visible in the right midground. Photographer: Dominion Stock & Bond Corporation.

Possibly K'san Native village

Possibly K'san Native Village

Photograph depicts a First Nations woman standing in a cleared forest area.

Typed annotation on recto: "Indian papoose at Fort St. James Stuart Lake, B.C." Child, wrapped in plaid blanket, being carried on back of woman in a field, other people in background.

Photograph depicts a First Nations woman and child standing next to a man holding a bucket with a wood house in the background.

Caption reads: "Siwash Squaw, Fort McLeod". "Siwash" was a derrogatory term sometimes used to refer to First Nations people of the Northern Pacific Coast of North America.

Photograph depicts a First Nations women seated in front of a wooden lattice.

Photograph depicts a First Nations women seated with a young child and infant in front of a fence with a house in the background.

Photograph depicts a young First Nations man and a First Nations boy posed for the camera.

Typed annotation on recto: "Indians of the Stuart Lake Section British Columbia." Two children in traditional dress, the younger wrapped in decorative flowered blanket, being carried on the back of the older. Side of wood building in background.

Head on shot of steam engine traveling through a pass with mountains in the background. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: "First Passenger Engine to reach Prince Rupert." Annotation on recto reads: "First Passenger Engine at Prince Rupert." Photographer' stamp in bottom right corner of recto reads : "Allen Photo."

Pile driver situated on Prince Rupert shoreline. Tents and wooden buildings visible on rocky background. Printed annotations on recto of photograph read: "First pile driven at Prince Rupert BC. June 8 '06."