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Good time but worked too
Title
Good time but worked too.
Production
[Alaska], [circa 1943]
Physical Description
83 photographs in 1 album : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 10 x 13 cm and smaller
Notes
Title from inside front cover.
Place and date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Captions in English.
Provenance
Purchased from Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller on the William Robertson Coe Fund No. 3, 2015.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Leontine Brizard (1914-2005) of Scotia, California, served in World War II as a member of the United States Marine Corps.
Summary
Photograph album compiled by Leontine Brizard with 83 photographs of Skagway, Alaska, circa 1943. Images document Brizard's time working for the Bechtel Corporation--a sub-contractor of the United States Army Corps of Engineers--during the construction of the Alaska Highway. Depicted are Brizard and identified soldiers or acquaintances. There are also 15 commercial views of Skagway published by Dedman's Photo Shop and 2 postcards of the highway produced by Canada's Wartime Information Board.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 26, 2019
References
Leontine Brizard, Good Time but Worked Too. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Leontine Brizard, Good Time but Worked Too. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Genre/Form
Gelatin silver prints.
Photograph albums.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
Postcards.
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