August Hahn Collection of Eric A. Hegg Photographs ca. 1897-1898

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August Hahn Collection of Eric A. Hegg Photographs ca. 1897-1898

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Photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush, gold miners and Klondike towns taken by Eric A. Hegg.

25 photographic prints

eng,

University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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Hahn, August

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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...