- 93-2018.17.30
- Item
- ca. 1908-1949
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "bad print of the saw mill"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "bad print of the saw mill"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Signed on front: "Copyright in Canada by B.W. Leeson"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "Airplane Spruce cut from 97" x 24 cuts in all about 4700 feet The Great [?] np & p.co Quatsino BC"
Written on back:
"This is one of Early Bird Cove on the neck between the sawmill side and Mrs Agora[?] where one [?] is.
Curtis, a negro[sic] at the end of the log is the boon[?] all the boys like him.
8 hours none of them less than 5 cents a day board 1.00 meal three times as usual just started sugar ration.
4 there that you know one was only a boy when yo left pick him out.
As the present prices of spruce logs the tree is worth $1900 as soon as it hits the water. The Donkey pulls it in about 4 hours. The log the boys are standing again[sic] just sailed through the woods a few minutes before we took the picture."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on front: "A Quatsino Spruce"
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back of print: "A Quatsino Siwash old type photo by W. Ben Leeson. The heads of the babes bound to make this shape."
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection
Written on back: "a bit outside"