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Rare Nelson gas works photo sells for $305
A rare photo shows a piece of Nelson industrial heritage under construction in 1900.
Greg Nesteroff
Oct 31, 20246 min read
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Tipis on the Nelson waterfront
Recently Doug Jones bought a batch of early Nelson photos from someone in England. There were lots of terrific shots, but what left Doug...
Greg Nesteroff
Oct 18, 20183 min read
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Nelson’s Railtown before the highway interchange
Photos of Nelson’s Railtown neighborhood prior to the construction of the Highway 3A-6 interchange in the early 1970s are inexplicably...
Greg Nesteroff
Sep 20, 20182 min read
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Nelson neon at night, 1968
Recently I’ve been posting photos by the late Ellis Anderson on the Lost Kootenays Facebook site. Anderson was a Creston photographer who...
Greg Nesteroff
Aug 31, 20183 min read
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Mattie Gunterman and the Williams sisters
The photo below is probably the second most-reproduced image ever taken in West Kootenay (next to R.H. Trueman’s vertigo-inducing shot of...
Greg Nesteroff
Mar 25, 20188 min read
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Postcard maker gone wild
Some of the most amazing West Kootenay postcards ever produced show the Rossland mines underground in the 1900s. I don’t know how the...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 19, 20182 min read
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Nelson from the air, 1961
Below is an ad that appeared in Trade and Commerce magazine in March 1962. It’s a fascinating aerial photo of Nelson from an unusual...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 19, 20182 min read
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The Mystery Photographer
Many pioneer photographers signed their work — a smart marketing move. Many others did not, leaving us guessing who might have been...
Greg Nesteroff
Jan 4, 20184 min read
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