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Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.

Photograph depicts Red Mountain Lumber Company mill owned by Roy Spurr in Penny, BC in 1929. Scattered all around the mill are the remnants of the previous coniferous forest that was destroyed in the Penny Fire that occurred 2 years earlier.

Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.

Item is a photograph of a copy print, resulting in a low quality photographic reproduction. Reproduced as a print, slide, and a negative. Location of original photograph is unknown.

Caption on back of photograph states: "Facing N on Sub Plot 16 showing [Reproduction] coming up"

Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.

"A large Douglas-fir veteran on the ridge above the camp towered above the Spruce-Balsam forest. A decision was made to convert it into a forest fire lookout. This photo shows a climber going up to top it"." --from the notes of Ralph Schmidt

Image depicts the Esso gas station in Riske Creek, B.C.

Image depicts the Esso gas station in Riske Creek, B.C.

Attached description: A mile-long shear boom on the Nass River is used to guide single logs into holding ponds where they await bundling, booming and towing to mills. Boom is cleared of debris daily by river crew.

No annotation on slide.

Photograph depicts a road through a forest.

Photograph is a printed postcard depicting a rock slide and creek near Stewart B.C.

Caption describing photograph: "Rolf Hellenius and Roy Scully."

Caption describing photograph: "Rolf Hellenius."

Caption describing photograph: "Roots of windthrown Spruce showing typical plate-like structure of roots. Imperfectly drained lacustrine deposit. Main Access Road, F.E.S. Aleza Lake." Harry Coates is pointing at the root mass.

Caption describing photograph: "As photo GBW Film 2 Frame 1." Harry Coates stands in front of the root mass of a toppled spruce tree.

Annotation on slide: "CP 57 Lower Burnt, January 1992, Rubber-tired skidder on road, R-O-W in advance regen, Dawson Crk district"

Photograph depicts two men saddling several horses.

Attached description: Sample bales of Skeena Kraft bleached pulp are displayed by a receptionist, Jan Thompson, in front of a large aerial picture of the combined operations of the Columbia Cellulose sulphite mill and the Skeena Kraft mill at Prince Rupert. Sample bales are used to ship pulp to prospective customers who wish to test this new product, which, is already gaining recognition in world markets at a high quality pulp.

Item is a photograph of a copy print that has been reproduced as a slide, resulting in low photographic quality. Location of original photograph unknown.

Annotation on slide: "BCMoF"

Hand coloured photo of a clearing in Prince Rupert with a sawmill in the distance. Printed annotation on recto reads: "Prince Rupert, B.C. : Saw Mill Grand Trunk Pacific Railway." Artist's stamp in the lower right corner reads: "103112 J.V."

Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso: "Daily Capacity 100,000 f.b.m. sawmill in foreground planer mill and lumber yard in background.”

Slide depicts a sawmill in operation, likely located in the Upper Fraser area, with a pile of burning wood products and a beehive burner.

Photograph depicts a sawmill with a dry kiln next to a rail line. The location and name of the sawmill is unknown.

Photograph depicts two men at a sawmill. A beehive burner is in the background.