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[Album 57, Richard Harrington photos of Yukon] Original title: Album 57, Untitled [graphic material]

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File

Date:

1949.

Reference:

R216, Volume number: 14990

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

204955

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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 57, Richard Harrington photos of Yukon] Original title: Album 57, Untitled
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Date(s):

1949.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 album (42 photographs) b&w

Language of material:

English

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This album, comprised of 44 pages on which 42 photographs are mounted, has three main subjects: documenting how ivory jewellery is made from a mastodon ivory tusk, the Dominion Experimental Sub-Station and the vegetation growing there, and Native salmon fishing practices. Photos by Richard Harrington. Accompanying descriptive notes are found in accession file 1973-357.

The following places can be found in the album: Teslin, Yukon; Whitehorse; Pine Creek; Alaska Highway; Kluane Lake, Yukon; Haines Highway; British Columbia - Yukon boundary; Dezadeash Range; Dominion Experimental Sub-Station; Mount Archibald; St. Elias mountains at Boutelliers Summit; Alaska - Yukon boundary; Lake Kathleen; trading posts and tourist establishments.

The following events can be found in the album: children playing in old stage coach (on grounds of Sam McGee's original cabin); hydraulic mining practices; overhead irrigation; carving huge mastadon ivory tusk; holding ivory up against bur of drill press; carving ivory into dogwood flower design; cutting and drying salmon.

The following objects can be found in the album: moosehide beaded jackets; Yukoner, paddlewheel steamer; Canada Customs and Immigration office, Alaska -Yukon boundary, Alaska Highway; fish cache; tractor; mastadon ivory tusk; ivory jewellry; Dominion Experimental test plots/gardens; rhubarb; fish weirs; close up of drill used for ivory carving.

The following people can be found in the album: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Johnston; John J. Elliott, ivory carver; Norman Jackson, gardener; man on horse, common sight on Haines Highway; Miss Florence Metcalfe; Don Brown; Percy Cordery, U of Alberta student; David Owen, U of Alberta student; Natives.

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Photographer: Harrington, Richard, 1911-2005

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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.

Source:

Government

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1974-366 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R216] 14990

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1974-366 NPC] PA-172809--PA-172812

[Consultation 90 Open]

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