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Miscellaneous I photograph collection

  • CA yuk yuk-1069
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900, ca. 1970]

The collection consists of a variety of photographs, many from the days of the Klondike Gold Rush. Photographs include the Pine Tree Hotel in Pine City, British Columbia, and the Caribou Hotel in Carcross, Yukon. There are several images of groups of First Nations people, including wranglers packing pack animals, and a man and boy with packsacks. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Stander of Eldorado Creek are identified in one photograph. Other photographs show unidentified people in scenes that may be the Klondike Gold Fields.

Whitehorse Public Library

Geoffrey Bidlake collection

  • CA yuk yuk-107
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1920]-1958, 1961-1964

The collection consists of copies of photographs and original slides collected by Geoffrey Bidlake of his life in the Yukon. Photographic views include hunting, fishing, boating, Carcross, Fort Yukon, Dawson, a 1958 wolf poisoning trip. The photographs show Bidlake and many of his friends, including John Scott, Alf Scott, Sophie Johnson and Bell Fraser. The slides are of the April 1964 Hand Over Ceremony of the Alaska Highway, from the U.S. Army to the Department of Public Works; and of the burnt remains of the White Pass Hotel, taken in 1961.

Bidlake, Geoffrey, 1900-1968

Bill Birchmore and Molly McCombe collection

  • CA yuk yuk-113
  • Collection
  • Copied 1988 (originally created [ca. 1932-1946])

The collection consists of photographs copied from originals collected by Bill Birchmore and Molly McCombe of their lives in Dawson. The photographs show Bill, other dredge men, White Pass & Yukon Route airplanes, mining camps, dredges, Dawson and the Klondike creeks.

Birchmore, Bill McCombe, Molly, d. 1988

Dave Bohn collection

  • CA yuk yuk-122
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1907]

These photographs were collected by Dave Bohn, and were mostly created by Kinsey & Kinsey, photographers. Other photographs were created by Larss & Duclos, Goetzman and Adams & Larkin. The collection consists of 22 original prints and one stereocard. Images include Dawson City, Grand Forks, Eldorado, Hunker and Sulphur Creeks and depict leisure as well as the mining activity in these areas. Individuals represented in the photographs include George Archer, Clarence and Clarke Kinsey, Asa Thurston Hayden, Mary Kinsey, Otto Reinig, James Mason (Skookum Jim), George Carmack and Patsy Henderson. There are also images of dog teams. The stereo card was published by G. W. Griffith in 1900 and is titled "Prospectors at Claim 29, Klondike".

Bohn, Dave

J.G.G. Bompas collection

  • CA yuk yuk-125
  • Collection
  • Copied before 1975 (originally created [ca. 1950])

The collection consists of photocopied pages from the Mason, Cox and Bompas family trees, compiled by Arthur G. Bompas, and added to by J.G.G. Bompas. The genealogy of Bishop William Bompas is shown.

Bompas, J.G.G., Rev., ca. 1890-

James Bond collection

  • CA yuk yuk-127
  • Collection
  • 1945-1946

The collection consists of two photographs of James Bond with mountain sheep that he shot in Alberta (probably in the Rocky Mountains), in 1945 and 1946. There are handwritten captions on the back of the photographs.

Bond, James H.,19- -

John Bovey Postcard collection

  • CA yuk yuk-132
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1910]

The collection consists of photo-postcards from Alaska and Yukon during and after the Klondike Gold Rush.

Bovey, John A., 19- -

R.J. Bowen collection

  • CA yuk yuk-134
  • Collection
  • Copied [ca. 1980] (originally created [ca. 1895-1950])

The collection consists of a microfilm copy of the Han dictionary which Bowen compiled, 1895-1907; a photocopy of Bowen's "Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Richard John Bowen Among Natives, Trappers, Traders, Prospectors and Gold Miners in the Yukon Territory... Before and After the Gold Rush of the Year 1898", which appears to have been written in 1950; as well as a description of Yukon photographs in the Bowen Collection at the Anglican Church of Canada, General Synod Archives, a "History of the Gold Communion Service, author and date unknown, an article "The Story of the Concertina" by S.H. Bowen, date unknown, and the music for "They Have Taken Away My Lord".

Bowen, Richard John, d. 1952

N.R. Brander collection

  • CA yuk yuk-139
  • Collection
  • 1898-1915

The collection consists of seven items: a mining claim bill of sale from Daniel M. McGrue to Sam McKee; a price list from the Gibraltar Hand Laundry; a small mounted water-colour with Japanese(?) writing; two shipping receipts from the Klondike Mines Railway Company; an advertisement by the Howard Dustless Duster Co.; and a City of Dawson tax notice, 1915.

Brander, N.R., 19? -

British Columbia Archives collection

  • CA yuk yuk-140
  • Collection
  • Copied before 1988 (originally created 1894-1960)

The collection consists of photographic images and textual records. There are photographs held by the British Columbia Provincial Archives that pertain to the Klondike Gold Rush era and were copied in ca. 1982. Images include Atlin, Dyea, Log Cabin, Pine City and Spruce Creek, by A.C. Hirschfeld; Skagway, Dyea and the Chilkoot Trail, by Winter & Pond Co.; Dawson City, by Larss & Duclos and H.J. Goetzman, and others. There are also 26 photographic postcards, both colour and b&w, depicting scenes in the Klondike and Alaska. There are pictures of the Klondike River, Dawson City buildings, Forty Mile in 1898 and 1904, captains and officers from steamers, and scenes in Alaska and the Yukon. The textual records include an assortment of miscellaneous papers and ledgers, covering a span of years. Part of the paperwork appears to have belonged to Judge S.O. Morford of Dawson City, and it includes correspondence, claim agreements, placer mining grants, cancelled cheques, bank statements and other financial records, all of which deal with assorted mining matters in which Morford was involved. There are also promissory notes, receipts, and records of accounts to do with the sale of ice. Other papers include a power of attorney document dated 1898, land title certificates for Forty Mile, a 1925 Sunnydale, Yukon voters list, and a letter written in Carmacks in 1960. There are three supplies account books (1892-1903) and a cash ledger (1904-1930), in which the name David Swanson appears. There is also a land title certificate with David Swanson's name on it.

British Columbia Archives

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