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Veazie Wilson photographs, 1894-1895
Overview of the Collection
- Photographer
- Wilson, Veazie, 1865-1895
- Title
- Veazie Wilson photographs
- Dates
- 1894-1895 (inclusive)18941895
- Quantity
- 16 photographic prints (1 box) ; various sizes
- Collection Number
- PH0311
- Summary
- Views of Alaska, including Fort Wrangell, Alert Bay, Juneau and vicinity captured by an amateur photographer while creating his guidebook to attract potential miners to the Alaska region
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries’ Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Veazie Wilson, born in Cherryfield, Maine in 1865, was an amateur photographer who documented the Fort Wrangell and Juneau area as well as the Yukon Territory in Canada. Wilson’s goal was to create a guidebook to attract potential miners to the Alaska region. The photographer died of typhoid fever in 1895, prior to the publication of his book. The book,Esther Lyon's Glimpses of Alaska: A Collection of Views of the Interior of Alaska and the Klondike District from Photographs by Veazie Wilson, was published in 1897 by Rand McNally and was compiled by Esther Lyons, who supposedly accompanied Wilson during his documentation of Alaska and the Yukon.
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
The Klondike Gold Rush officially began in 1896 when Skookum Jim Mason’s party struck gold in Bonanza (Rabbit) Creek. Miners rushed to Alaska in 1897 after some of the first successful prospectors arrived in Seattle. The town of Wrangell was used by prospectors traveling up the Stikine River to mine for gold. Wrangell soon became crowded because the town was advertised as the easiest route to the Klondike.
Esther Lyon's Glimpses of Alaska: A Collection of Views of the Interior of Alaska and the Klondike District from Photographs by Veazie Wilsonwas one of many photographic travel albums produced about the Klondike.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This collection contains images of the Alaska region just before the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800s.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View selections from the collection in digital format.
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions might exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact the repository for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Photographs fromEsther Lyon's Glimpses of Alaska Return to Top
These photographs are arranged by the number of the page on which they appear in the book.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/1 | 1 |
Treadwell Mine
Caption on page 5: Two miles from Juneau, on Douglas Island. Largest quartz mill in the world. Ore low grade, but free milling. Net profits for year 1984 $420,948.86.
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1895 |
| 1/1 | 2 |
Two men trading with Stick Indians on the shore of Lake Lebarge
Caption on page 29: The Sticks are the most stalward of the upper Yukon Indians. They claim to be 'all same as Boston man.' They are good hunters.
|
circa 1895 |
| 1/1 | 3 |
Group of Forty Mile Miners
Caption on page 54: One hundred thousand men could prospect the Yukon basin and be lost to one another. The greatest drawback is the limit of supplies.
|
1895 |
| 1/1 | 4 |
Frank Cromier's claim on Miller Creek
Caption on page 73: Placer gold came there by being ground by natural processes out of the quartz or other matrix where nature placed it, and deposited in a natural and unmixed state amid the washings of the hill.
|
1895 |
| 1/1 | 5 |
Russian Mission at Creole village of Kutlik on the Lower Yukon. Native Canoes and fish drying racks on the shore
Caption on page 81: The Greek Church has the largest number of churches and adherents in Alaska, the Russian Government supporting the work.
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circa 1895 |
| 1/1 | 6 | circa 1895 | |
| 1/1 | 7 | circa 1895 |
Views of Alaska and CanadaReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | item | ||
| 1/2 | 8 | Carved and painted objects attached to poles in a graveyard in Alert Bay |
circa 1895 |
| 1/2 | 9 | 1984 | |
| 1/2 | 10 | circa 1894 | |
| 1/2 | 11 | circa 1894 | |
| 1/2 | 12 | circa 1894 | |
| 1/3 | 13 | 1894 | |
| 1/3 | 14 | 1895 | |
| 1/3 | 15 | circa 1895 | |
| 1/3 | 16 | circa 1895 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Form or Genre Terms
- Photographs
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
