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. We will later list more very interesting photos from the same group. We believe the photos we are listing to be from Grand Forks or more likely Dawson. 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 they 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 also photographed Grand Forks and the area.
PLEASE NOTE: The above scans are fairly close to the original. The original is a brownish color with more of a golden tone than seen above and it is a little lighter. The photo has pretty good contrast. Please read description below and study our scans for condition.
INFO: We overlapped two separate photos and laid them on the scanner table as the two form a nice panoramic view of the miners' camp and operation. THIS AUCTION - LISTING is for the RIGHT SIDE PANEL as they are each being sold separately. The left portion will be listed next.
DESCRIPTION: This is an interesting antique photo. It is a bird's eye view of a camp and operation of early miners. There is a stream that runs through the valley. Miners are working the digs and we added close ups of these. We believe this is in Dawson, but it could be Grand Forks, White Horse of even Alaska. **We just located a small group of this same
genre of photos, and miners are identified as the Dasher family, so this may be Alaska,
and we lean toward the Yukon. Likely it is both, as the Gold Rush in Dawson petered out for individual miners in August of 1898 and miners went to the next Gold Rush, Nome. Dawson photographer E. A. Hegg also moved to Nome for in 1898. There is info above re the Park Service about the exodus. They photos may have started in the Yukon, then moved to Nome with the great exodus. Please read the blue text above for prevenance and info. We greatly welcome info from you experts. We added close ups for better viewing. We are listing a photo of the Dewey Hotel in Grand Forks, so this and the other photos are likely in this area of the Yukon, then some in Alaska. We added further close ups where miners were working. The photo is a brownish color with a golden tone, more gold than seen above, and it is slightly lighter and nice contrast. It is in very good condition with very slightly bumped corner tips and slight wear at some tips. The very tip of the upper left corner tip has a tiny diagonal crease. The photo 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 a miners' camp an operation!
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The purple lettering is not on the original photo.