The Knapp Roller Boat. Photographer: Freeland, William Thomson
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Inscription: Handwritten caption and copyright declaration on mount. Halftone reproduction of a photograph of the ill-fated 'Knapp Roller Boat,' the invention of Frederick Augustus Knapp.
Inscription: Letterpress caption label with copyright description pasted to mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Posed studio portrait, mounted on a cabinet card, of a hunter in a wintry landscape.
The turkey hunter. Photographer: Smith, Lewis Hiram
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Inscription: Letterpress caption label with copyright description pasted to mount. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Posed studio portrait, mounted on a cabinet card, of a hunter in a wintry landscape, carrying home a dead turkey.
Inscription: Numbered '537' and captioned, with copyright declaration, in the negative. Photographer's stamp on mount. Genre: Industrial Photography View looking down into a stope, or step-like excavation, in a coal mine, with a figure at work at the coalface.
Inscription: Numbered '538' and captioned, with copyright declaration, in the negative. Photographer's stamp on mount. Genre: Industrial Photography View looking along the excavation, with a miner wheeling a barrow of coal along the tunnel.
F. A. Knapp B.C.L. Photographer: Simpson, Herbert E.
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Inscription: Handwritten caption and copyright declaration on mount, with photographer's blind stamp.. Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length right profile studio portrait of Frederick Augustus Knapp (b. 1854), Canadian lawyer and inventor of the ill-fated 'Knapp Roller Boat.'
The Knapp Roller Boat and its inventor. Photographer: Freeland, William Thomson
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Photograph of a drawing or painting of Frederick Augustus Khapp's ill-fated invention, set within a decorative oval, with an inset portrait of the inventor above and a letterpress description of the boat below. Listed as an exhibition print.
Klondikers buying miner's licenses at Custom House, Victoria, B.C., Feb. 21 1898. Photographer: Jones, John Wallace
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Inscription: Handwritten caption on mount and copyright declaration in the negative. View showing a long line of prospective miners queuing in front of the Victoria customs house.