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Postcard 9626

Harmon Byron (Photographer) . Wooden Head Big Bend Highway.. Banff: Photographed & Copyrighted by Byron Harmon, Banff, Canada, [before 1942].

Description: The Wooden Head that was located at Mile 80 on the Big Bend Highway. It was construced from a cedar stump that had some human characteristics and stood over the highway at Canoe until it was relocated to Revelstoke after the construction of the Rodgers Pass and the flooding of the valley behind the Mica Dam. Sept. 9, 1945

On Front: [printer's no.] 1009

On Back: "Along the Line of the Canadian Pacific Railway."

On Back: "Made in Canada"

Physical description: 1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm.

Language: English

Subject headings:

• Canada--British Columbia--
• Sculpture
• Signs (Notices)
• Wood carvings
• Trees

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