William E. Meed collection ca. 1898-1953 ca. 1898-1907

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William E. Meed collection ca. 1898-1953 ca. 1898-1907

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Photographs, clippings, letters and a journal documenting the Klondike gold rush.

327 photographic prints; 42 clippings; 1 journal; 4 panorama photographs; (2 boxes)

eng,

University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6368527

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Hegg, Eric A..

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O. C. Peck

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Kinsey, Clarence

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Hegg & Co.

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J. Boony

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Winter & Pond

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Lloyd Valentine Winter (1866-1945) and Edwin Percy Pond (1872-1943), of the firm Winter & Pond Co., were prominent Alaskan photographers. In 1893, Winter came to Juneau from San Francisco and entered a partnership with George M. Landerkin, known as Landerkin and Winter. In 1894, his long time friend E.P. Pond bought out Landerkin. Winter and Pond served as official Alaska photographers for the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. During the gold rush, Winter was appointed the ...

H. C. Barley

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Meed family

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Kinsey, Clark

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White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)

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The White Pass & Yukon Route built the White Pass Railway, a 110-mile, narrow-gauge railroad running from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada; construction began in 1898 and was completed in 1900. From the description of Payroll records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171545 From the description of Payroll records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80056574 The White Pass & Yukon Route built the White Pass Railway, a 110-mile, ...

Cantwell, George G., d. 1948

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George G. Cantwell

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Goetzman, H. J.

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Meed, William E.

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William Meed went to Dawson, Yukon Territory, in 1898. He was an amateur photographer and photograph collector who took many of his own photos of life in Dawson and the Klondike Gold Rush, and also collected photos taken by others. Meed worked in river transportation as freight and passenger agent of the Lake Bennett and Klondike Steam Navigation Company, in the same capacity for the Canadian Development Company, and as general manager of the Stewart River Gold Dredging Company. He was founder, ...

Barley, H. C.

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Meed, Mabel

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H. J. Goetzman

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Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948

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Eric A. Hegg was born in Bollnas, Sweden, in 1868 and came to America with his parents when he was three years old, settling in Wisconsin. Hegg studied art and photography (possibly as an apprentice to a local photographer). At fifteen, he opened his own studio in Washburn, Wisconsin. At the age of twenty-one, Hegg moved to the Puget Sound area, and by 1897, he owned two photo studios in Bellingham Bay, Washington. In that year, he left for the gold fields with a group of men from Bellingham Bay...