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Image is a posed portrait printed in an oval shape of two people leaning on a tree stump. The figure on the left is in city clothes and the figure on the right is wrapped in what appears to be a wool trade blanket. The image appears to have been cut out from another source and mounted on the carte de visite card. Below the oval photograph is a printed inscription that has been trimmed off: "CHIEF OF TH [...] W. COAST V. I." Printed on the verso is the photographer information with the inscription "N. SHAKESPEARE, Photographer, GOVERNMENT STREET. Victoria, V. I."

Image is a posed portrait of a seated, shirtless man viewed from the waist up. Handwritten inscription on verso reads "Nanaimo, ? B.C."

Image is a posed portrait of a man from the waist up. The man has a pierced nose. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian man V. I. B. C."

Image is a group portrait that consists of three seated figures on stools on an elaborate tile floor. The figures appear to be wearing traditional fur garments of cultures of the Newfoundland and Labrador geographic area, possibly Inuit. Printed on the verso is the photographer information with the inscription "PHOTOGRAPHIE VON J. M. JACOBSEN ST. PAULI Hackhell's Passage 2te Bernhardstrasse 25 HAMBURG Gesetzlich deponirt. Brevete (S. G. D. G.) Registered." Around the border of the verso is printed " Neuer Pferdemarkt 13. KARL HAGENBECK'S THIERPARK HAMBURG". Handwritten inscription in pencil reads "Family from Nakwah, Labrador ; Nom Jeg?neman [illegible] mean the old Fox". Additional handwritten inscriptons in pencil (illegible).

Image is a group portrait of six people and a dog. The people appear to be indigenous, possibly Inuit people wearing traditional reindeer garments. The portrait takes place outdoors. In the background is a building. Printed on the verso is the photographer information with the inscription "PHOTOGRAPHIE VON J. M. JACOBSEN ST. PAULI Hackhell's Passage 2te Bernhardstrasse 25 HAMBURG Gesetzlich deponirt. Brevete (S. G. D. G.) Registered." Around the border of the verso is printed " Neuer Pferdemarkt 13. KARL HAGENBECK'S THIERPARK HAMBURG". Handwritten inscription in pencil reads "Family Eskimo Labrador".

Image is a posed portrait of a woman viewed from the waist up. Handwritten inscription on verso reads "Nanaimo Woman B. C."

Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman in a shawl holding a pan that appears to be full of some kind of grain. The woman wears what appears to be a woven willow clam basket on her back for harvesting shellfish. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian woman Frasher river B. C."

Image is alternate view of a039312. Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman in a shawl holding a pan that appears to be full of some kind of grain. The woman wears what appears to be a woven willow clam basket on her back for harvesting shellfish. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian woman Frasher river B. C."

Three large totem poles with a building and forest in the background

Row of houses along shoreline with side wheeler "Princess Louise" at wharf in background

Crowd holding up coffin outside of church in Port Simpson

Brass band posed to be photographed

Village of Hartley Bay on waterfront at the base of a heavily wooded mountainside

Row of houses with girls gathered on steps in front yard

Schoolhouse with women and children gathered in front

House with four totem poles

Brass band posed to be photographed

Photograph of Port Essington, B.C.

Photograph of an illustration of H.B.C. (Hudson's Bay Company) Fort Simpson

Men gathered inside a church at Fort Simpson that has been decorated for Christmas.