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This fonds consists of 33 black and white photographs taken or acquired by Roy Quinstrom between 1937-1939 while he was an employee of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd. of Yellowknife. The images include the first gold brick poured in the North, the Con Mine site, raising a cat tractor from below the ice, scenery, floatplanes and barges.

The two assay buildings at box [Box Mine, Saskatchewan]

Con. Pipe lines looking towards Mill. Oct. 6th, '38.

Plane Lillian Arrived In At Godfields, Sask. [Small airplane on floats CF-AV-Y situated at dock.]

[Barge being unloaded on a riverbank, flanked by two small floatplanes, one possibly a de Havilland Beaver.]

[Barge no.203 being docked by six workers onboard. In background is a Caterpillar tractor.]

[Posed photo of seven members of the Con Mine cookhouse crew, dressed in white hats and aprons, taken inside the cookhouse.]

Con. Raising cat from Lake. 10th Dec. 1938 [Three men, while standing on Great Slave Lake? ice, use a system of pulleys and tow chains attached to a timber support frame to pull a Caterpillar tractor from the water.]

[View of Great Slave Lake looking toward Con Mine from Mosher Island?]

Con. Pipe trestle looking east from roof of mill toward camp. [Con Mine employee is walking westward along the top of the pipe trestle.]

Con. Cat being raised from Lake. Dec. 10th, 1938. [Six men successfully raise a Caterpillar tractor from Great Slave Lake? using a system of pulleys and tow chains.]

[View of lake and cliff from shoreline.]

Con. Cook House & Pipe Lines from Camp Water Tower. Sept. 17, '38.

[View of a lake from the top of a hill.]

[Aerial photo of a lake.]

[Two Con Mine employees shake hands at the head of the rail tracks as another employee looks on from a distance.]

[View of a lake looking down from a hill.]

Year 1939. I'm doing the pouring. The other guy is Fred Walton, the Superintendent. He became our dearest and closest friend along with his wife Ena. He, now a widower, lives in retirement in Victoria in poor health. [Roy Quinstrom and Superintendent Fred Walton pour the first gold brick at the mill at Con Mine, Yellowknife, NT.]

[Two men standing at the base of the Con? headframe.]

Roy Quinstrom from Kimberly or Trail. Fred Walton. [Roy Quinstrom and Fred Walton posing at the Con Mine site.]