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Volume II

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Plate I. Lever-Type Fur Press at Fort Resolution.

The Glenbow Foundation dates this view from the 1880s; the Hudson's Bay Company gives the date as ca. 1908.

Courtesy of GIenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary. File No, NA-664-1.

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Plate II. Reconstructed Fur Store and Fur Press at Rocky Mountain House, Heritage Park, Calgary.

The press is of the lever type and very similar to the original one shown in Plate XCIII, volume I.

National Park Service photograph by J. A. Hussey, September 1967.

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Plate III. A Wedge Press of the Type Employed in Both the American and Canadian Fur Trades.

Driving wooden wedges between the movable blocks above the furs provided the pressure necessary to make a compact pack.

From a National Park Service drawing by William Macy, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis.

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Plate IV. An Old Screw-Type Press in the Trade Shop at Lower Fort Garry NHP, Manitoba.

Note the three channels in the base and in the top plate for the pack cords.

National Park Service photograph by A. L. Koue, September 1967.

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Plate V. The Large Baling Press at Moose Factory, Hudson Bay.

Such huge presses were employed at main depots for compressing buffalo hides and for forming the large bales of returns for shipment by sea.

Courtesy of Library, Hudson's Bay Company, Winnipeg; reproduced with permission of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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Plate VI. A Modern Screw-Type Press in Operation at Caribou Post, ca. 1947.

After placing a piece of burlap on the bottom of the press, the post manager packs in the pelts.

Courtesy of Library, Hudson's Bay Company, Winnipeg; reproduced with permission of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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