Freight Teams traveling through Vancouver
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Title
Freight Teams traveling through Vancouver
Subject
British Columbia
19th century
Transportation
Cattle
Rural
Cargo
Freight
Livestock
Trade
Vancouver
19th century
Transportation
Cattle
Rural
Cargo
Freight
Livestock
Trade
Vancouver
Description
This is an image of a large column of wagons and livestock being transported 15 miles from Yale, Vancouver. In the 1860’s the transportation of trade goods was evolving, incorporating large groups of wagons, animals and labourers to move the goods from town to town, and eventually in the coming decades the increased use of trains and steam boats. This image is very worn and of a poor-quality due to the technology used to capture it. This image was taken using ‘wet plate’ photography, a process which was both complicated and expensive and is the reason that the exposure and quality of the image is low. However, this shows how much the photographer valued capturing this event on photograph, as they would have had to carefully transport the plate many miles to develop the picture. This source demonstrates the stark change that the development of transport had on the area.
Creator
Believed to be taken by Frederick Dally
Publisher
City of Vancouver archives
Link: http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/14-mile-house-showing-freight-teams-passing-tavern-15-miles-above-yale
Link: http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/14-mile-house-showing-freight-teams-passing-tavern-15-miles-above-yale
Date
1866-70
Contributor
Samuel Armitage
Rights
Public domain
Language
N/A
Type
Visual - photograph
Identifier
British Columbia
Files
Collection
Citation
Believed to be taken by Frederick Dally, “Freight Teams traveling through Vancouver,” The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present, accessed May 2, 2024, https://theamericanpacificrim.omeka.net/items/show/142.