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Janet Rissky and June Heurlin fonds
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66 photographs and other material.
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Janet Rissky and June Heurlin took the slides and b&w negatives of Harry Leamon themselves. Janet Rissky acquired the four b&w prints from an estate sale in Duluth, Minnesota. Janet Rissky obtained the textual records from the Old Post Office in Dawson City, Yukon, in 1958-'59, when the building was wide open and neglected.
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The fonds consist of 53 colour slides depicting Harry Leamon and his mining claim in 1958, '59, '61, '62 and '71; 9 b&w negatives depicting Harry Leamon in July, 1958; 4 b&w photographic prints taken by Wolfe; and a folder of textual records including a Dawson Ice Guessing contest ticket from 1949, a 1971 Dawson City telephone directory, and various business records from the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation, CIBC, Royal Canadian Signals Radiotelegraphs, Yukon Gold Placers Ltd., Northern Commercial Co., Burns & Co. Ltd., and Kirk's River Freighting Service.
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Includes 53 colour slides, 4 b&w prints, 9 b&w neg., and 1 folder of textual records.
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- Rissky, Janet (Subject)
- Heurlin, June (Subject)