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Album 41, Untitled [graphic material]

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File

Date:

1947-1949.

Reference:

R216, Volume number: 14999

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

204931

Context of this record:

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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development fonds

Northern Affairs Program sous-fonds

Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch

Northwest Territories and Yukon Branch: Photographs

Departmental library albums

Album 41, Untitled
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Date(s):

1947-1949.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 album (84 photographs) : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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This album, comprised of 24 pages on which 84 photographs are mounted, consists primarily of aerial photographs of regions in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. A series of photos are of a magnetic survey party. Photos by J.L. Robinson. One photograph is from Richard Harrington, 1949.

The following places (mostly aerial) can be found in the album: Yellowknife, old and new town sites; Point Lake, N.W.T.; Cambridge Bay, Nunavut.; Pasley Bay, Boothia Peninsula; R.C.A.F. base camp; Collinson Peninsula, Victoria Island; Northern Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut.; magnetic survey party camp, Point Lake.

The following events can be found in the album: magnetic party setting up camp; surveyor at work (silhouette).

The following objects can be found in the album: camp of construction crew at Yellowknife airfield; tundra vegetation; R.C.A.F. Canso airplane; white fox furs, H.B.Co. store; polar ice (aerial); Inuit summer camp; R.C.M.P. buildings; unoccupied Anglican mission, Cambridge Bay; late Patsy Klengenberg's house (aerial).

The following people can be found in the album: H. Steacy, magnetic survey party; Y.O. Fortier, magnetic survey party; J. Clarke, magnetic survey party; J.L. Robinson; D.N. Polunin, magnetic survey party; P. Serson, magnetic survey party; Inuit.
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Photographer: Harrington, Richard, 1911-2005

Photographer: Robinson, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1918-2008
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Note on the state of conservation:

There should be interleaving.

Custodial history:

This album was originally part of accession 1974-366, which had been integrated into 1973-357. It has since been separated back into the two individual accessions of 1973-357 and 1974-366.

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14999 : Albums 40-41

Source:

Government

Other accession no.:

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1974-366 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R216] 14999

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1974-366 NPC] PA-102253--PA-102257

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Copyright: Expired.

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