# Whiskey Gap, Alberta, 1974

## Creator and date

Photograph by **Tom Willock**, dated **1974** by [Willock & Sax Gallery](https://www.willockandsaxgallery.com/photographers/tom-willock). The year belongs to the photograph's catalogue caption, rather than its upload or print production date. No institutional accession number or acquisition history is supplied by the gallery.

## Gallery caption

> Whiskey Gap, Alberta, 1974, dark-room based selenium toned silver emulsion black & white photograph, framed, 11 x 14 inches (category D).

The user supplied this caption, and it was verified against the gallery page on October 31, 2026. The framed print's stated size and medium describe the physical work, not the downloaded digital file.

## Visual description

Black-and-white photograph of three wooden grain elevators and railway tracks in snow, with low prairie hills behind.

## Acquisition and source

Direct image URL and complete caption supplied by the curator on October 31, 2026. Downloaded from the gallery image CDN.

- [Gallery page](https://www.willockandsaxgallery.com/photographers/tom-willock)
- [Exact supplied source asset](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ef7d86069114e72a0ade8ec/1610066718298-KHMOJVCLX868U5447FZI/tom-willock-whiskey-gap107.jpg?format=1920w)

## Rights and credit

No reuse licence was found on the inspected gallery page; no licence is asserted.

Credit: Tom Willock; source: Willock & Sax Gallery.

## Digital copy

Exact unchanged response bytes from the supplied URL. Although the URL ends in .jpg and requests format=1920w, the CDN returned image/webp at 1500 × 1106 pixels. The file uses the matching .webp extension. No resizing, cropping, enhancement, recompression or metadata editing was performed. This is the source-hosted web rendition, not an archival master.

- Retrieved: 2026-10-31T15:27:40.964Z
- Response: HTTP 200; image/webp
- Size: 1500 × 1106 pixels; 153546 bytes
- SHA-256: `d891c67639998120d21b3b71720a79e908b939e8ca79cdf909629d2d11ceea01`
- [Local photograph](/images/whiskey-gap-1974-tom-willock-1920w.webp)
- [Machine-readable provenance](/provenance/whiskey-gap-1974-tom-willock.json)

## Preserved source page

The matching gallery page was preserved on October 28, 2026, at 2026-10-28T23:44:00.2498699Z, from [the gallery's Squarespace host](https://ray-lime-l48d.squarespace.com/photographers/tom-willock): 462800 bytes; SHA-256 `9f8a24e9a92895e7b2e8ba05bcac9c915de0a2d0947d68efad6a14505f73322a`. The canonical gallery page and caption were checked again on October 31, 2026.