- PHILIP-3-1986-0806
- Item
- [191- or 192-?]
Part of Philip Fonds
A group of Rainbow Lodge guests, picnicking on the banks of the Green River. Inscription on verso : "Log jam on Green River"
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Part of Philip Fonds
A group of Rainbow Lodge guests, picnicking on the banks of the Green River. Inscription on verso : "Log jam on Green River"
High rigger topping a spar tree
Part of Philip Fonds
Photograph of a high rigger (logger) felling a spar tree. The annotation on the reverse reads "Cutting off branches to make spar tree for logging. Green Bay, B.C., 1920?" [Location unclear: may be Green Lake rather than Green Bay]
High rigger climbing a spar tree
Part of Philip Fonds
Photograph of a high rigger (logger) climbing a spar tree in preparation for felling. Inscriptions on verso : "Same tree as on other picture! [0345] Can you see man under lowest limb? ready to begin cutting. / Green Bay, B.C. ", "Green Lake", "1920? / Rigging a spar tree...They put rigging on it" [Location unclear: may be Green Lake rather than Green Bay]
Part of Philip Fonds
Postcard of several people posing on a felled giant fir tree. Caption on postcard : "THIS FIR GIANT MEASURED 417 FT. IN HEIGHT WITH A CLEAR 300 FT. TO THE FIRST LIMB. AT THE BUTT IT WAS 25 FT. THROUGH WITH BARK 16 IN. THICK. ITS CIRCUMFERENCE BEING 77 FT.; 207 FT. FROM THE GROUND ITS DIAMETER WAS 9 FEET. FELLED NEAR VANCOUVER IN AUGUST '95 BY GEORGE CARY, WHO IS SEEN UPON THE LADDER." Handwritten inscription below caption : "1895" and inscription on verso : "Sam Steeves / 406 . 3rd ave / New Westminster"
Logs being loaded onto a flatcar on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Photograph of logs being loaded onto a Pacific Great Eastern Railway flatcar.
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Photograph of the Neiland pole making outfit, showing the machinery involved in creating poles in the 1920s and 1930s.
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Photograph of men loading poles onto a flatcar. The man standing on top of the pile of poles is likely Thomas Neiland Sr. A horse is in the foreground.
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Photograph of two unidentified men loading cedar poles onto a flatcar on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Photograph of the Neiland house at Alpha Lake. This was their house in their first logging operation at Alpha Lake (Mile 35 1/2) before they moved to the Function Junction area (Mile 34 1/2).
Children in front of tree stumps, clearing land at the Jardine-Neiland property
Part of Jardine / Betts / Smith fonds
Photograph of two young boys, almost certainly Thomas Neiland Jr. and Bob Jardine, standing in front of some large tree stumps during the clearing of the Jardine Neiland property at 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area]. Jenny Jardine stands in the background.