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Part Of
Bob Esson Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
2005.16
Scope and Content
Collection of photos consisting of early Kitimat and construction, Alcan, and construction of Kitimat railway.
Part Of
Bob Esson Collection
Description Level
Fonds
Accession Number
2005.16
History / Biographical
Worked for Northern Sentinel June 1957 - July 1959, business manager under Pixie Meldrum, Editor, photos obtained through Northern Sentinel Press
Scope and Content
Collection of photos consisting of early Kitimat and construction, Alcan, and construction of Kitimat railway.
Name Access
Esson, Bob
Subject Access
Kitimat
Early Construction
Railroad
Alcan Smelters & Chemicals Ltd.

Nels Klit award winning garden

https://collections.kitimatmuseum.ca/en/permalink/description186
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
GMD
graphic material
Date Range
1959
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Nels Klit, his daughter, and wife in the family's garden on Starling Street.
Part Of
Kitimat Museum Website Collection
Description Level
Item
Item Number
180
GMD
graphic material
Responsibility
Photographed by Malak Karsh
Date Range
1959
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w
History / Biographical
One of the first prize gardens on Starling Street in the annual community competition.
Scope and Content
Photo depicts Nels Klit, his daughter, and wife in the family's garden on Starling Street.
Notes
Other number 45048C. Famed Canadian documentary photographer Malak Karsh was hired in the 1950s by Alcan to take photographs of Arvida and Kitimat. Many were published in Alcan literature and textbooks on Canada. A colourized version of this photograph appears in the “Kitimat: Tomorrow’s City Today”, by B.J. McGuire and Roland Wild, reprint booklet, Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959. Alcan Collection
Name Access
Klit, Nels
Subject Access
Towns
Images