Jas. Sheppard, Building Contractor and Boat Building Company, South Cumberland Street, Thunder Bay. People in photo: J. Sheppard (sitting, left), Alex Beck (standing middle). Donor: Mrs. M. Nordlander (Beck)

Black and white photograph of the initial stages of construction. The photograph shows the wooden frame of the first two storeys with a storey below (basement). Workers and Alex Beck, the construction foreman, are standing on the plank in front.

Black and white portrait of Alex Beck, a businessman whose company supervised the building of the Finnish Labour Temple in 1910

Alex Beck's Construction Company building a lighthouse on Welcome Island in Thunder Bay on Lake Superior. Donor: Mrs. M. Norlander (Beck).