Photographs and published albums, 1898-1905.

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Photographs and published albums, 1898-1905.

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The collection includes photos and souvenir albums published by Eric A. Hegg. The collection contains 28 cyanotype and 2 black and white photographs, plus three published souvenir albums. The photographs include images of the Klondike and surrounding areas taken during the gold rush period of 1898 through 1900. The souvenir albums contain halftone prints of Hegg photos. The first album depicts life in the Klondike during the 1898 gold rush. The second album deals with the Nome gold rush at the beginning of the twentieth century. The third album contains images of Southeast Alaska, circa 1905.

.25 cu. ft.

UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7776308

UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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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...