Title: Getting Around the Snowslide at Kwinitsa Tunnel in 1945

This record describes an item in the Wrathall Photo Finishing Ltd. fonds.

Creator: Wrathall, John (Jack) Richmond

Date: 1945

Physical Description: ["1 nitrate negative : b&w ; 10 x 6 cm (referred to as copy 1)", "1 photograph : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm (referred to as copy 2)"]

Scope & Content: Item consists of a man on a wooden bridge while a car attempts to move past the snowslide at Kwinitsa Tunnel on the Skeena River. Handwritten annotation on recto of copy 2 reads: "West of Kwinitsa at Big Tunnel. Getting Around Big Slide." Handwritten annotation on verso of copy 2 reads; "Jack Wrathalls [sic] Car. Photo by Jack Wrathall Prince Rupert, B. C."

Responsibility: John (Jack) Richmond Wrathall

Note: Title based on contents of image.

Name Access:
Wrathall, John (Jack) Richmond

Subject Access:
Disasters
Rivers
Automobiles
Slides

Geographic Access:
Kwinitsa, B.C.
Skeena River, B.C.

Accession Number: WP997-45-12907

Negative Number: JRW323

Record ID: 2560


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