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Sidney and Katie Birch fonds
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Copied [ca. 1989] (originally created 1898-1901) (Creation)
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19 photographs : b&w copy negs;4 pgs. of textual records
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Catherine (Katie) McMullen was born ca. 1881. She came to the Yukon in 1898 with her sister Mame McMullen, who was two years older and had been to the Yukon before, working for the photographer E.A. Hegg and living in the back of his studio. Katie married Sidney Birch in Dawson in 1899. She later worked as a waitress in a roadhouse operated by Sidney Birch 10 miles from Dawson.
Custodial history
The photographs were passed on to the Birch's granddaughter, Barbara Hernberger, who loaned them for copying in 1989.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of photographs copied from the Birch's family album, and a photocopy of a letter from Katie Birch. The photographs are family shots taken in the Dawson City area, including Sidney and Katie's wedding portrait done by H.G. Goetzman in Dawson City, as well as views of the Star Roadhouses on 30 Below Bonanza, 76 Below Bonanza. The letter was written in 1899 to Katie's nephew, Colin Campbell, son of Mame McMullen Campbell. In the letter Katie refers to pictures in Murray Morgan's book "One Man's Alaska" and recounts what she remembered of these scenes and her time in the North.
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