Photography

Oct 316 min read

Rare Nelson gas works photo sells for $305

A rare photo shows a piece of Nelson industrial heritage under construction in 1900.

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Oct 18, 20183 min read

Tipis on the Nelson waterfront

Recently Doug Jones bought a batch of early Nelson photos from someone in England. There were lots of terrific shots, but what left Doug...

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Sep 20, 20182 min read

Nelson’s Railtown before the highway interchange

Photos of Nelson’s Railtown neighborhood prior to the construction of the Highway 3A-6 interchange in the early 1970s are inexplicably...

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Aug 31, 20183 min read

Nelson neon at night, 1968

Recently I’ve been posting photos by the late Ellis Anderson on the Lost Kootenays Facebook site. Anderson was a Creston photographer who...

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Mar 25, 20188 min read

Mattie Gunterman and the Williams sisters

The photo below is probably the second most-reproduced image ever taken in West Kootenay (next to R.H. Trueman’s vertigo-inducing shot of...

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Jan 19, 20182 min read

Postcard maker gone wild

Some of the most amazing West Kootenay postcards ever produced show the Rossland mines underground in the 1900s. I don’t know how the...

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Jan 19, 20182 min read

Nelson from the air, 1961

Below is an ad that appeared in Trade and Commerce magazine in March 1962. It’s a fascinating aerial photo of Nelson from an unusual...

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Jan 4, 20184 min read

The Mystery Photographer

Many pioneer photographers signed their work — a smart marketing move. Many others did not, leaving us guessing who might have been...

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