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Agnes Cochrane collection

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  • Collection
  • 1906

The collection consists of photographs of Conrad City and surrounding area taken by Muirhead and J. Doody ca. 1906. The images produced by Muirhead include the Conrad Hotel, Conrad Mines vault, Windy Arm mountains, and the Gleaner steamer in Windy Arm. The J. Doody photograph is a view of Conrad City.

Cochrane, Agnes

Aitken family fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Copied 1999 (originally created [ca. 1900])

The fonds consists of reproductions of photographs taken by the Aitken family who travelled to the Yukon during the Gold Rush. The photographs include scenes of streets and buildings in Dawson City, Grand Forks, Bonanza and Skagway, Alaska, totem poles in Wrangell and Sitka, Alaska, the "White Horse" sternwheeler and dredging operation on the Yukon River, and scenes of Glacier, British Columbia.

Aitken family

A.K. Schellinger fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1897-1941, 1970, predominant 1908-1941

The fonds consists of photographs taken by A.K. Schellinger and postcards he collected between 1897 and 1940. The albums primarily relate to silver mining operations in the Mayo - Keno Hill area and gold mining in the Dawson City - Klondike area. One of the album photographs is among the first colour photographs of Dawson City. It was taken in 1912 on lumiere colour plate and later re-photographed on Kodachrome and processed onto Kodacolor prints without artificial colouring. The remaining 58 photographs in the fonds were taken between 1898 and 1935. They depict Dawson City (1897-1899), Mount Freegold near Carmacks, sternwheelers, North Fork, Selwyn Creek, gold mining at Quartz Creek, Inspiration Point, the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) railway, sailing up the Inside Passage in 1912, and people including Bill Lingham, Jack Carpentier, Bill Forbes, Clyde Wann, Tom McKay, Joe Walsh, Joe Menzies and George Devore. There are also postcards of caribou herds, dogsleds, and one dogsled with a moose on it in front of a taxidermist's cabin. The textual records consist of a 2 page biographical sketch of A.K. Schellinger by his son Ken, and a 4 page "Forward" prepared by John Scott.

Schellinger, Alfred K., 1887-1969

Al Tomlin collection

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  • Collection
  • Copied 1992 (originally created [ca. 1945])

The collection consists of photographs depicting ice fishing at Kluane Lake, Gene Jacquot welcoming the first Greyhound bus to traverse the Alaska Highway, and a trophy collection from a 30 day hunt at Burwash Landing, Yukon.

Tomlin, Al, 19- -

Alan Fry fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1964

The fonds consists of slides taken by Alan Fry during his 1964 Easter trip to Old Crow. Those taken in the village show the residents, buildings, Easter sports activities and dog teams. There are ten photographs taken from a Cessna airplane as it flew south of Old Crow.

Fry, Alan, 19- -

Alan Innes-Taylor fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1890-1974

The fonds consists of textual records, photographs and a recording, created or collected by Alan Innes-Taylor. The majority of the textual records (ca. 1890-1974) include personal correspondence; survival notes and lectures; Byrd expedition records; Vilhjalmur Stefansson correspondence and reports; Belmore Brown correspondence and reports; and an alphabetical death register from the Klondike area (accession 95/32 in-process). Also included are copies of maps, catalogues of Innes-Taylor's library, manuscripts on Yukon history and a script of a play. The photographs consist of 159 black and white and colour prints from an album compiled by Innes-Taylor, who, between the years 1964 and 1969, attempted to visually record what he considered to be the locations of some the territorial historic sites. The cost of the project was assumed by the Cassier Asbestos Corporation. Subjects include Bonanza and Hunker creeks; the site at Fort Francis; the restored Fort Yukon; Dalton Post; historic plaques; First Nations villages; cemeteries, gravesites and markers in Aishihik, Bennett, Carcross, Dawson City, Tagish, etc.; log cabins in various locations; and dredges, churches and old abandoned machinery along the creeks. Another accession includes a single image of a moose in water. The sound recording is Innes-Taylor reading an article from the Klondike Nugget, July 2, 1902, describing the newly installed organ in the Dawson City Presbyterian Church.

Innes-Taylor, Alan, 1900-1983

Alaska - Yukon Refiners and Distributors fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1958-1959

This fonds consists of corporate records of the Alaska - Yukon Refiners and Distributors and 345 maps and plans of the plant and pipeline. There is correspondence and equipment orders for 1959, and employment applications and personnel correspondence, 1958-1959.

Alaska-Yukon Refiners and Distributors

Alaska Commercial Company fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Microfilmed 1981 (originally created 1893-1937)

The fonds consists of microfilm copies of records selected from Stanford University Libraries' larger collection of Alaska Commercial Company Records. It includes general accounts, correspondence, legal documents, reports and financial reports for the Alaska Commercial Company and also its successors, the Northern Navigation Company and the Northern Commercial Company. The Alaska Commercial Company records date 1868-1940; the Northern Commercial Company, 1906-1926; and the Northern Navigation Company, 1905-1921. The fonds also consists of a typewritten letter from Wm. Peron of the Alaska Commercial Company to agents for the Company in the Yukon District regarding the introduction of Mr. G.E. Pulham, Superintendent of the Canadian Development Company's mail service between Dawson City and Tanana.

Alaska Commercial Company

Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry fonds

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  • Fonds
  • Copied before 1981 (originally created 1977)

The fonds consists of two typed manuscripts entitled "Some Aspects of Yukon History" and "Perspective on Impact" submitted to the Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry. The authors are thought to be Roger McDonnell and Hugh Brody, however this has not been confirmed. The first paper "Some Aspects of Yukon History" includes the following chapters: The Original Population and Early Contacts; The Nature of the Fur Trade; The Gold Rush and Its Aftermath; Population and Change; Highways and Pipelines; Government in the Yukon; Fatalism and the Lessons of Yukon History; and Native Claims and the Development of Modern Yukon. The second paper "Perspective on Impact" includes the following headings: Perspective on Impact; Yukon and Development; and Assessing the Pipeline's Impact.

Alaska Highway Pipeline Inquiry

Alaska Historical Library photograph collection

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  • Collection
  • Copied 1979 and 1987 (originally created 1897-1960)

The collection consists of photographs copied from the Alaska Historical Library because of their Yukon content. Included are scenes along the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR), Dyea, Sheep Camp, Chilkoot Pass, Bennett, Carcross, Whitehorse, Dawson City, Forty Mile, Mayo, sternwheelers, a portrait of William Ogilvie, the wreck of the sternwheeler "Columbian" on the Yukon River. Photographers include C.H. Metcalf, Winter & Pond, Case and Draper, Larss & Duclos, Goetzman, Wolfe, and Mizony.

Alaska Historical Library

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