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Kitselas Aerial Tramway RPPC - F. Button Photo Prince Rupert BC circa 1910 – Dee's Postcards
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Archival photograph of Kitselas Aerial tramway carrying workers over a BC construction camp, snow-capped mountains in background, F. Button Photo Prince Rupert No. 247, circa 1910–1912
Back of Kitselas Ariel Shipping The Men RPPC, AZO paper stock, one-cent stamp box, pencil price notation "150," undivided back style, circa 1910–1912
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Kitselas BC Aerial Tramway - Shipping the Men - Fred Button RPPC - Postcard SP24

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Real photo postcard (RPPC) captioned "Kitselas Ariel. Shipping The Men." Photographed by F. Button Photo, Prince Rupert, No. 247. Printed on AZO paper stock (one-cent stamp box). Undivided back style; unused, unposted. Kitselas Canyon was a key construction site on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway line, circa 1910–1912.

Scene Details:

  • Aerial tramway platform carrying several workers suspended high above a construction camp
  • Busy camp below with wagons, equipment, lumber, and canvas tents
  • Two-storey white frame building mid-ground
  • Dense conifer forest on hillside with a cleared tramway right-of-way
  • Snow-capped Coast Mountains in the background
  • Derrick or crane structure at right foreground
  • Caption lower right: "Kitselas Ariel. Shipping The Men."
  • Photographer credit lower left: "Fred Button Photo, Pr. Rupert. No. 247."

Please zoom into and look closely at the front and back photos to view condition, and feel free to send me a message if you have any questions. Thank you, D