#MasteryofMan

2024-02-09

Poetic license in this 1943 #letterhead at #BCArchives: “The Alaska Highway / See, now, of power & conquest / what a destiny is mine! / As a symbol of defiance, lo! the / wilderness I span; / And my beacons burn exultant / as an everlasting sign / Of unending domination, of the mastery of Man!”

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Letterhead honouring the Alaska Highway. Three panels in sepia and teal: 2 photos flanking a poemIllustration of a road surveyor looking to his right, which features a cartouche sepia photo of 2 men and a ‘jeep’ viewing a lakeA poem in brown font on a printed teal forested backdrop; poem “Adapted from ‘The Song  of the Camp’ by Robert W. ServiceIllustration of a road grader pushing dirt towards a cartouche with a sepia photo of a truck on the Alaska Highway

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