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Miriam Green Ellis poses with a First Nations woman and two children. This image is also represented among her hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

A First Nations woman poses with her child held in a sling on her back. An older woman, possibly the child's grandmother, gazes at the camera from behind them both. The image has been overexposed at the middle bottom.

The steam wheeler 'Slave River', taking on cords of wood for fuel. The vessel is open to show the fuel storage hold.

Men wait on the dock with cargo to travel up the Clearwater River in Alberta. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

Two First Nations women at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.

A birch bark canoe, set on the shore at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

Miss Christine Gordon poses in her garden near Fort McMurray, Alberta. She acted as postmistress for the community until the Hudson's Bay Company took over administering the mail. Miriam Green Ellis visited with Miss Gordon to follow up on her doings…

The Salt Springs Patrol, in the Northwest Territories. Miriam Green Ellis rides with them, mounted on the leftmost horse. This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.

Miriam Green Ellis takes a stealthy photo of a fellow traveller at camp in Salt Springs in the Northwest Territories.

Miriam Green Ellis, nursing blistered feet in camp at Salt Spring in the Northwest Territories.