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British Columbia Archives collection
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247 photographs : b&w copy prints;.12 m of textual records;26 postcards : b&w and col.
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The British Columbia Archives is in Victoria, British Columbia. The BC Archives is the archives of the government of British Columbia, and provides research access to records of enduring value to the province for both the provincial government and public clientele. Archival holdings include: government documents and records; private historical manuscripts and papers; maps, charts and architectural plans; photographs; paintings, drawings and prints; audio and video tapes; film; newspapers; and an extensive library of publications with a strong emphasis on the social and political history of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.
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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.
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Requests for reproduction of the photographs must be referred to the British Columbia Archives, Victoria, B.C.
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Finding aids
There is an inventory to the British Columbia Provincial Archives Photograph collection (Inventory #7), which describes the photographs (82/77). Fifteen photocopies of the photographs are filed alphabetically by subject in the Photograph Visual Finding Aid. A caption list for the postcards and Forty Mile photographs (acc. 86/101) is available.