7 photograph prints : color ; 12.5 x 18cm
1 photograph print : color ; 13 x 15cm
2 photograph prints : color ; 8 x 11.5cm
1 photograph print : color ; 6 x 11cm
1 photograph print : color ; 4 x 4cm
1 photograph print : color ; 12.5 x 9cm
Custodial History
Photographs taken by Gisela Mendel in her role as museum curator.
Scope and Content
Images taken from atop Clague Mountain looking down on Kitimat.
Notes
71.75.4 and 71.75.4.0 to 13 (Missing 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9)
Photo depicts Nechako Neighbourhood, swath of land cleared for Neighbourhood "D", and Douglas Channel in the background, smelter on the right.
Notes
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 on the cover of the Canadian Geographical Journal, November 1959, Vol. LIX No.5. Northern Sentinel Press Collection