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Mountain Creek Bridge Crew

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From the Ebay Description (#6224322807, November 2005):

This is a good cabinet card photographic image from the Canadian Pacific wilderness titled "Mountain Creek Bridge, 150 ft., Silkerk Mts." Card is 5" by 8" and it is in excellent condition with no flaws. This is an image of the bridge under construction with snow still on the ground, and the construction crew is posing for the photograph on the partially built wooden structure with a few of the men atop some of the vertical support posts. This certainly gives a good idea what it took to build one of these trestle bridges from the ground up in this remote wilderness area. This is part of a terrific lot of 15 stereoviews and 40 cabinet card photographs of the Canadian Rockies in western Canada, particularly the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia, taken by a few different photographers in the 1880s. Subjects are mostly associated with the exploration and building of the Canadian Pacific Railway through that remote wilderness area, and several are of the trains, trestles, and some great images of the actual workers.