The fonds consists of photographs believed to have been taken by Eric A. Hegg. The first accession (87/29) consists of glass plate negatives. The photographs are of mining scenes, the Chilkoot Pass, the tent city at Lake Lindeman, Grand Forks, totems and burial houses. The second accession (82/290) consists of copies of photographs from the E.A. Hegg Collection at the University of Washington. The majority of these photographs were taken during the Klondike Gold Rush years in the Yukon, 1898 and 1899. Hegg also followed the gold seekers into Alaska as late as 1902. There are a number of locations represented by these images: Skagway, Dyea, Bennett, Atlin and various smaller settlements along the route to the Klondike Gold Fields, and down the Yukon River with its various villages to Nome on the Bering Sea. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by geographic location and in some cases by subject.