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.
Sans titrePhotograph depicts a bulldozer convoy pulling empty flats through a forested landscape.
Photograph depicts an access road leading through a forested environment.
Photograph depicts a flooded rocky terrain with a forest landscape in the background. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Flattened to grade by Bulldozer, ready for shovel to dig. Sec. #2. Ground still very wet. Frost just out."
Photograph depicts a large cut ditch in the forested landscape. Shovel visible in distance. Annotation on recto states: "Portoin(?) of sec. #1"
Photograph depicts a bulldozer operating in a large ditch constructed within a forested landscape.
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"
Large mechanized shovel working on a logged hillside. Annotation on recto of photograph states: "Shovel on sec. #3 working up grade towards sec. #2"
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 wooden pile trestle that leads through a wooded landscape. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Pile tressle upper end. Sec.#1. Bents 12" centers - 3 only 12" piled driven to refusal; caps 10" x 12" "
Photograph depicts a man leaning over in front of a tall wooden pile driver in a forest environment. Annotation on recto of photograph reads: "Pile driver sec.#1. This is a gravel point"
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.