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Charlie Perkins

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1968
Collection/Fonds
Columbian Newspaper collection
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w photomontage ; 20 x 15 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of World War I veteran Charlie Perkins watching as a "woodsman's saw" cuts down the tree that originally had been spared when the Port Mann freeway was built around it. (Charlie Perkins had planted ivy around the tree in 1920 as a memorial to his fallen comrades in the Royal Canadian Air…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1968
Collection/Fonds
Columbian Newspaper collection
Physical Description
1 photograph : b&w photomontage ; 20 x 15 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
480-1013
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
Reproduce for fair dealing purposes only
Accession Number
2003-02
Scope and Content
Photograph of World War I veteran Charlie Perkins watching as a "woodsman's saw" cuts down the tree that originally had been spared when the Port Mann freeway was built around it. (Charlie Perkins had planted ivy around the tree in 1920 as a memorial to his fallen comrades in the Royal Canadian Air Force). A photograph of Charlie Perkins was collaged onto photograph of tree being felled, and then re-photographed to create this seamless montaged photograph.
Subjects
Plants - Trees
Monuments - War Memorials
Persons - Veterans
Names
Perkins, Charlie
Media Type
Photograph
Notes
Title based on contents of photograph
Images
Less detail