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Messiter Camp

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Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1927
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Description Level
Item
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26 cm
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man sitting on a log outside a tent at what is identified as the "Messiter camp." A clothesline can be seen strung up in the background holding a blanket. A small wooden structure can be seen behind the tent. The man is unidentified although this photograph appears to have been t…
Repository
City of Burnaby Archives
Date
1927
Collection/Fonds
Burnaby Historical Society fonds
Series
Community Archives Collection series
Subseries
Peers family subseries
Physical Description
1 photograph : sepia ; 6.5 x 12 cm on page 17.5 x 26 cm
Description Level
Item
Record No.
020-184
Access Restriction
No restrictions
Reproduction Restriction
No restrictions
Accession Number
BHS2007-04
Scope and Content
Photograph of a man sitting on a log outside a tent at what is identified as the "Messiter camp." A clothesline can be seen strung up in the background holding a blanket. A small wooden structure can be seen behind the tent. The man is unidentified although this photograph appears to have been taken by Arthur Peers, who travelled through the Fraser River Valley and worked on the construction of the Trans-Provincial Highway during the later 1920s.
Subjects
Structures - Tents
Occupations - Lumberjacks
Media Type
Photograph
Photographer
Peers, Arthur Francis "Mike"
Notes
Title based on caption accompanying photograph
Images
Less detail