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).