We are listing a large group of Mining and Mining related photos from 1899 - 1900 of the Yukon Territory, including Miners' tent cities and a photo of the Dewey Hotel in Grand Forks.  This photo of the Dashers is from Alaska.  We will later list more very interesting photos from the same group.   We believe the photos we are listing to be from the Grand Forks or Dawson area.  It is possible some are in the White Horse area or even Alaska.  Because of the Miles Canyon photo and the Dewey Hotel photo, we believe some are from Dawson or Grand Forks.  All photos are the same size and coloring and weight.  We do welcome info from you experts as to location.  We love a mystery, but it would be great to learn for certain where these photos were taken. *****We just located a few more from this grouping of miners and towns that are identified as the Dasher family mining in Alaska.  Some of the group are from the Yukon Territory and some are from Alaska. 

National Park Service:   "By midsummer of 1898, there were 18,000 people at Dawson, with more than 5,000 working the diggings.  By August, Many of the stampeders had started for home, most of them broke.  The next year saw a still larger exodus of miners when gold was discovered at Nome, Alaska."  July of 1899, Photographer E. A. Hegg sold his business to P. E. Larss and moved to Nome.  The studio burned in 1898 and was rebuilt (perhaps this explains why some of these photos are from the Yukon and Alaska).  The Kinsey Brothers photographed Grand Forks and the area.

PLEASE NOTE:  The above scans are pretty close to the original.  The original is a lovely brown with a slight golden tinge and has very good contrast.  Please read description below and study our scans for condition.

DESCRIPTION:  This is an interesting antique photo. The back identifies the gent on the left as Grandpa Dasher and the 4th from the left as Dick Dasher and also identifies the locale as an "Alaska Gold Mine".  The man at the right is likely Dick Dasher's father.  We will be listing a few more photos of miners with at least one of these gents.  There are three dogs standing with Dick.  Three sluice boxes are in operation.  This may be in Nome, as the next hot spot after Dawson in 1898 was Nome.  The other scenic and miners' camp photos showing topography may help ID this if any of the photos were taken in Alaska.  The photo is a lovely brown with a golden tinge and has very good contrast.  It has slightly more gold than seen above and is just a hair lighter than our scans.  Please read the blue text above for prevenance and info.  The photo is in very good condition and has bumped corner tips with very slight wear at some tips.  The lower left corner tip is slightly turned up or curled.  The photo itself is just slightly curled at the edges.  It measures about 4 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches and we believe this to be from 1898 to 1900.  What an interesting old photo of the Dasher group searching for gold! 

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The purple lettering is not on the original photo.