Sapphire Lake

Description

Title: Sapphire Lake
Contributor: United States--Bureau of Biological Survey
Published / Created: [1915]
Publication Place: Sapphire Lake (B.C.)
Abstract: Lantern slides of photographs that chiefly document an expedition led by Samuel Prescott Fay in the northern Canadian Rockies from Jasper, Alberta, to Hudson's Hope, British Columbia, from June to November 1914. The expedition received financial support from the United States Bureau of Biological Survey to collect and record wildlife species in the region, as well as determine the northern range of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The lantern slides were probably created to illustrate lectures delivered by Fay in 1915.
Description: Box 2 of 3.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 lantern slide : glass, b & w ; 8.3 x 10.2 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA Photos 210
Collection Title: Lantern slides of an expedition in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada
Collection / Other Creator: Fay, Samuel Prescott, 1884-1971
Container / Volume: Box 2 | Folder 87

Format: still image
Genre: Photographs
Subject (Geographic): British Columbia--Pictorial works
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)--Pictorial works
Sapphire Lake (B.C.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name): United States--Bureau of Biological Survey

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Samuel Prescott Fay, Lantern Slides of an Expedition in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.