[Photo] Cable Rig with Men Below, McDermid, BW, Large, 1916

Photograph

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Canadian Energy Museum

Name/Title

[Photo] Cable Rig with Men Below, McDermid, BW, Large, 1916

Entry/Object ID

2024.26.1

Tags

1910s, Photograph, Cable Rig, Oil Field, Oil Industry, Oil Rig, Oilfield, Petroleum, Black and White

Description

A large, landscape, black and white photographic print (glossy), of a wooden calbel rig, with FOUR men standing around the base. The cable rig is positioned to the left of the image, with the attached structure with a tall chimney in the middle, and a crops of trees to the right. The lower quarter is a grass field, and the upper 3 quarters cloudless sky. To the left, below the rig are FOUR men, dressed in dark suits (on slightly back to the left, two slightly forwards directly below the rig, and a fourth a little to the right). Off to the right side of the rig, halfway up, are two horizontal poles. In the bottom-right is the handwritten (onto the negative) text reading "McDermid; 916", with the latter number believed to be the date (1916), but this is unconfirmed, though the dress of the figures in the photograph would support such a date. On the reverse in red ballpoint in written "167". Photographer: Based on the inscription, the photographer is believed to be Albert Edward McDermid / McDermid Photo Laboratories, who worked in British Columbia and Alberta during the early-1900s. This would also align with the believed associated donation record which would place the scene in Flathead/Fernie, British Columbia.

Collection

Mac Anderson Collection

Cataloged By

Danielle P. Lane

Acquisition

Accession

2024.26

Source or Donor

Mac Anderson

Acquisition Method

Gift

Created By

Danielle P. Lane

Create Date

September 27, 2024

Updated By

Danielle P. Lane

Update Date

April 3, 2025