Accession G-1995-001 - Northwest Territories. Department of Public Works and Services

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Northwest Territories. Department of Public Works and Services

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  • Graphic material

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Repository

Northwest Territories Archives

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G-1995-001

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  • [1958-1995] (Creation)
    Creator
    Northwest Territories. Department of Public Works and Services. Systems and Communications division

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Physical description

approximately 29,000 images [11,200 colour and black and white negatives; 6,300 colour slides; and 11,500 colour and black and white prints, including many duplicates]

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Northwest Territories. Department of Public Works and Services. Systems and Communications division

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The photographs were taken, collected or purchased by the photographer for the GNWT. The photographs depict the following subjects: images of people, communities in the Northwest Territories, scenery, wildlife, traditional land use, hospitals, Royal Canadian Mounted Police buildings, schools, infrastructure of communities, water, air and land transportation, sports and recreation, hunting, fishing, traditional clothing, political leaders, government buildings, camps, mines, DEW line sites, events such as Arctic Winter Games, Expo '86, Canada Day, churches, airports, housing, dogsledding, fauna, arts and crafts and performing arts. Many of the photographs were taken by Tessa MacIntosh, Bob Wilson, Fran Hurcomb, Bruce Sekulich and D. Milligan, Government Photographers in the 1980s and early-1990s.

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      Access restricted under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

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      Finding aids

      A subset of the photographs has been described at the item level in this database. A high level overview of the remaining images is available in the guide to the unprocessed photograph collections of the Government of the Northwest Territories.

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      Copyright held by GNWT and in some cases by individual photographers: see accession file for more details.

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