Photograph depicts a gas (?) shovel digging out a ditchline through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts the front end of a steam shovel in a cleared gravel area in front of a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Steam Shovel"
Photograph depicts the front end of a steam shovel in a cleared gravel area in front of a forested landscape.
Photo depicts a large sled loaded with large metal tubing, a tent and a pile driver(?)
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective featuring construction of two water flumes across a narrow valley between a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a landscape perspective featuring a water flume in the shape of a horseshoe built along a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Horshoe Creek"
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 a steam shovel operating in a ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "steam shovel sec. #3 July 15th"
Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on the side of a rocky cut in a wooded landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "compressor on rock cut sec. #4"
Photograph depicts a wooden flume being constructed along a hillside through a forest landscape. Handrwitten annotation on recto of photograph: "Flume over pile trestle, sec. #1, 8ft. wide"
Photograph depicts a caterpillar tractor and a bulldozer working on a ditch cut through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on recto reads: "see #1 cut go wide on top". Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "caterpiller tractor and bulldozer working on ditch"
Photograph depicts a shovel at work widening a ditch cut through a forested landscape.
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 wooden trestle constructed along a steep cliff through a wooded environment. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Trestle work through upper canyon 1/2 mile below intake, Germansen Placer Ltd."
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 wide ditchline cut into a rocky landscape with a forested region located in the far background.
Photograph depicts a wide ditchline cut into a rocky environment with a line of trees located in the background.
Photograph depicts a shallow ditch cut into rocky terrain that leads through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts a bulldozer driving down a shallow ditchline with a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts a sideview of a shovel digging a ditch through a forested hillside. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "One of deepest cuts, 1 yd. P & H, shovel 36 ton, floor of ditch is 15 feet length, 10 miles". Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Germansen shovel in deep cut on ditch construction 1939".
Photograph depicts a line of wooden piles that have been driven into the ground and lead through a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "part of flume construction piles driven down to refusal".
Photograph depicts two unidentified men working on a wooden flume located in a forested landscape. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph states: "flume".
Photograph depicts an unidentified man standing on a hillside in front of a pile driver located in a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts several long logs laid out across a wide ditch with a forest landscape in the background. Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph: "Early in April trees put across ditch to make footing for caterpillar tractor".
Photograph depicts three piles of stacked lumber located in a forested landscape. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Lumber for flumes. Co. has its own sawmill"
Photograph depicts four men standing in front of a float plane on the shore of a lake surrounded by their bags. Annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Leaving Stuart Lake by plane, Left to right: Mason, Keith, Ferguson, MacMillan (Pilot)"
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Logs. on Railway".
Photograph depicts a snow covered pile of logs. Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A stack of logs".
The images consists primarily of 130+ photographs taken by or belonging to Reverend R.W. Large, MD which depict communities on the Northwest Coast between approximately 1898 and 1920 including Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet, and Port Simpson, including native villages in which Reverend Large worked. Images show scenes of native fishing, canneries, mission hospitals, churches, girls schools, portraits of native families, and Northwest Coast totems. Other images include 25+ photographs and postcards from the Large family depicting ships and boats on the North Coast.
Photograph depicts a two men on small fishing boat, called a gillnetter, moored at a fish packer dock with six men at work. One man is transferring materials from crates into large bags while several others watch. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “Fish Packer”
Photograph depicts one man is wearing a hospital gown and on well dress man peughing a large halibut on a dock. A boat is tied to dock in the background. Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Halibut Mamaculla”
Photograph depicts several log booms on the water with a forested area in the foreground.
Photograph depicts piles of wood planks and log booms in the foreground with a waterfall in the background.
Photograph depicts a man standing on the deck of a sailboat with a view of a cannery along the shoreline of Ocean Falls with mountains in the background.
Photograph depicts a cannery on pilings over the water with other cannery buildings in the background.
Photograph depicts a cannery on pilings with a body of water in the foreground with a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts a cannery on pilings with a body of water in the foreground and houses and trees in the background.
Photograph depicts cannery buildings on pilings with a body of water in the foreground and tree covered mountains in the background.
Photograph depicts several cannery buildings on pilings with water in the foreground and a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts a distance perspective of several cannery buildings with a body of water in the foreground and a mountain range in the background.
Photograph depicts cannery buildings on pilings with a body of water in the foreground and a deforested area behind the shoreline.
Photograph depicts a view of cannery buildings from the shoreline with mountains in the background.
Photograph depicts cannery buildings on wooden pilings with a body of water in the foreground and a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts wood planks piled on a dock with wood buildings built along the shoreline of the background.
Photograph depicts a cannery on wood pilings with several other buildings along a forested shoreline with a body of water and boat in the foreground.
Photograph depicts a building under construction with wood planks on the dock in the foreground and a forested area in the background.
Photograph depicts three men fishing in a boat with a cannery and wooden buildings along the forested shoreline in the background.
Photograph depicts three men at a whaling station with debris on the ground and a large elevated tank in the background.
Photograph depicts a two men standing on piles of whale bones at a whaling station. Annotation on verso of photograph states: "Pile of whale bones, Whaling station, Vancouver Is."
Photograph depicts three men standing behind salmon hung to dry on a wooden deck. Annotation on recto of photograph states: ""Spring Salmon" Rivers Inlet, B.C"