Collection of photographs depicting individuals from the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana and some scenes from Glacier National Park (U.S.) during the early twentieth century. Images included were digitized from photographic negatives.
Images of the Prairie North at the Turn of the Century
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Frank J.P Crean
Native Studies Review , vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 103-127
Description
Archival black and white photographs taken between 1908 and 1909 during the Frank J. Crean exploration expedition ranging from the Saskatchewan River valley to the Athabaska River and Portage la Loche in the east.
Note on back: "Ryan's dog train leaving (Fort) McMurray for the North. Note the Alaska sleigh used in the soft ice of early spring." Probably taken in 1928. Prof. Emrys Jones donated a large collection of early northern photographs to the Institute for Northern Studies, University of Saskatchewan, in 1968.