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A Salute for the Arrival of the Sailing Schooner "Mink"

Photograph is of five men saluting a ship. Four of the men are standing, and one is crouching, all are dressed in western style work clothing, and are standing on the edge of a cliff on the left said of the image. The Standing four are waving shotguns in the air. They are looking out to sea where there a large schooner is anchored.

Canoe with sails

Photograph shows a landscape with a canoe with sails on water, there is one lone man sailing the canoe. Desolate landscape, only short vegetation, a slight hill in the background, and once again a plain white sky. The man has his back to the viewer, and he wears a hat pulled down over his jacket.

Chesterfield and Trap

Photograph depicts Chesterfield kneeling in the snow under a fir tree. He is checking an animal trap, intended for small animals. There is an axe laying in front of him. The figures are spatially arranged in a diagonal line reaching from the bottom left hand corner to the upper right. This image is available in its original form or its flipped one.

Church at Moose Factory

Photograph is of a church seen behind a fence, in the middle of farm land at Moose Factory. The church is on the left of the image, while there are various fields with cows, and other buildings scattered throughout this image.

Cree carrying furs

Image shows three Cree Natives and a white man standing in front of a house, specifically in front of the door. The Cree are carrying furs, and one of them has his back to the viewer, one smokes a pipe and looks directly at the camera, and the third is facing forward but looking down. The man seems to be unlocking and opening the door with his back to the photographer. There are two snow banks in the foreground.

Cree Encampment

Photograph is of a Cree encampment at the river side. To the right is a group of five Cree, arranged around a fire completing various tasks such as mending, starting a fire, cooking, and chopping wood. To the left there are two tepees pitched. The ground is mostly bare, with only a few tufts of grass, and rocks. The horizon line is clearly defined where the river meets the sky.

Cree Group

Photograph shows a group of six Cree (two male, four female) arranged three standing in the back, and three kneeling in the front. In the background there is a Tepee to the left, and trees in the right, The women are all wrapped in shawls and blankets, and are wearing dresses. Both men wear hats, and the one who stands in the back holds an axe in his hands.

Cree in Canoes

Photograph depicts four canoes on a river, filled with Cree families. Some are being paddled, and some are drifting. In the distance there are snowy hills, and a bare sky. Some of the Cree look toward the viewer.

Cree Indian and Canoe

Photograph accopanied with a slip of paper which reads "Cree Indian healing pitch and mending Birch Bark Canose- Fort George, Hudson Bay". Depicts a Cree man bending over a very large birch bark canoe, in a landscape dense with greenery. There is a line of fur trees behind him, and he is kicking up dust in the foreground/

Cree with Pipe

Photograph is a close range portrait of a Cree man, dressed in western style work clothing, smoking a pipe. He is sitting in long grass and sand, with one leg folded under him, and one out in front, displaying his boot. In the background there are rolling hills, and a river.

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