Beschreibung:

Lot of 11 ca 1899-1906 photographs relating to Dawson City, Yukon and the Klondike Gold Rush. Three are 10 x 12 in. mounted photographs by Goetzman of Dawson City, all credited and identified in the negatives, including one titled Tom Nixon's Skookum Bench Mine clears $1000.00 each day; one of 8 men posed with mining equipment, titled Nos. 10-11 AB Sulphur; and one of a man and woman walking among huge chunks of ice in the Yukon River at Dawson, with seven steamboats visible on the opposite bank, dated May 19, 1901. Accompanied by a nice series related to Dawson grocer W.C. Avery, including a 3.25 x 4.75 in. photograph of Avery's Store in its earliest stages, set up in a tent, the photo inked on verso Dawson City / Store of W.C. Avery (right) / July 21st, 1899 / N.W. Territory; 11 x 13 in. mounted photograph of the business less than three years later, titled on verso W.C. Avery's Grocery Store, Dawson, Yukon Terr., Canada, Spring of 1902 before enlarging; and two 10 x 12 in. mounted photographs titled Cottage in Dawson occupied by W.C. Avery, Summer of 1902, showing four men and three dogs relaxing on the porch. Others include 2 views by Kinsey & Kinsey, one a 10 x 12 in. of a man and boy posed next to a sluice, titled in the negative Jim Gibbs - Youngest Successful Miner in Yukon, and a 9 x 13 in. unmounted photograph of roughly 40 miners, titled in the negative Rosenthal & Moe, 24 Above on Bonanza / July 6, 1902; plus a 5.5 in. sq. mounted photograph of a group of men on a boat, penciled on verso Dad on Boat to Nome Alaska in '98; and an uncredited 10 x 12 in. mounted photograph of a cabin buried in snow. Condition: All prints with some overall fading. "Bonanza Mine" with several creases and chips. "Dad on boat" slightly faded with spotting on the mount. Avery's tent store on paper backing with glue reside all around border, and with a tear across the upper right corner, with tape repair on verso. "AB Sulphur" with yellow spotting in middle of print and a stain on the mount.