{"id":13794,"date":"2019-02-01T07:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2019-02-01T00:10:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:10:46","slug":"joseph-tyrrell-gold-miners-and-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/joseph-tyrrell-gold-miners-and-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Tyrrell, gold miners and dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gold Commissioner’s Office in Dawson City by J B Tyrrell c1898<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. My friend Goldie was wandering around the Fisher Rare Book Library<\/a> on the U of T campus when he discovered photos of the Dawson Creek area around 1898-1901 (during the gold rush). The photos were taken by Joseph Burr Tyrrell. He was a famous Canadian as noted by this text in the Canadian Encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is even a museum<\/a> named after him just outside Drumheller. My youngest daughter and I visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum a bit over 15 years ago. It is a small museum with some amazing dinosaur bones and other artifacts.<\/p>\n

I had a Leica M4 with me at the time while my daughter had a Canon AE-1. I used ASA800 Fuji Colour Film and had alkaline cells in my Gossen-Pro since mercury cells were banned by then. The built in meter of the AE-1 was used to calibrate the Gossen-Pro. Alkaline cells proved to be relatively stable when fresh. If Gossen had spent a few pennies more, a bridge circuit could have been used making voltage variations irrelevant. Their crude meter, battery, resistor circuit relied on the stability of the mercury cells which had a constant voltage until almost dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. My friend Goldie was wandering around the Fisher Rare Book Library on the U of T campus when he discovered photos of the Dawson Creek area around 1898-1901 (during the gold rush). The photos were taken by Joseph Burr … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705],"tags":[2422,2421,397,413,2424,2423,409,61,129,2420,416],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-2422","tag-alberta","tag-book","tag-canon","tag-dinosaur","tag-drumheller","tag-gold-rush","tag-leica","tag-museum","tag-tyrrell","tag-u-of-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}