ORU_PH203_005.xml Guide to the Florence M. Hartshorn photographs 1897-1900 Hartshorn (Florence M.) photographs Finding aid prepared by Normandy Helmer, Access & Preservation Officer University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives c2010
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Florence M. Hartshorn photographs Hartshorn, Florence M., 1869-1943 PH 203_005 0.2 linear feet 1 container 1897-1900 Florence M. Hartshorn (1869-1943) was a photographer who lived in the Yukon during the gold rush. The collection consists of an album and loose prints made by Mrs. Hartshorn and her husband, documenting the landscape of the region, entrepreneurs and residents. 1 container, including 1 album (17 photographs) and 14 loose photographs English . 1

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 Hartshorn, Albert K., 1869- Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)--Photographs Gold mines and mining--Yukon--Photographs Gold mines and mining--Alaska--Photographs Gold miners--Yukon--Photographs Gold miners--Alaska--Photographs Women Photographs British Columbia Mines and mineral resources Expeditions and Adventure Photographic prints--Yukon River Valley (Yukon and Alaska)--1899-1900

Florence M. Hartshorn was born in Michigan in 1869, as was her husband, Albert K. Hartshorn. They had one daughter, Hazel Hartshorn Goslie. In July 1898 she arrived in Skagway, Alaska, and traveled north to Log Cabin, British Columbia, where her husband had established a blacksmith shop. This was the peak of the Yukon gold rush, and she saw first-hand the rugged conditions and the creativity by which the people survived. Florence began assisting photographer E.J. Hamacher at Lake Bennett in 1898. The Hartshorns lived in Canada until the 1920s. By the 1930s, Florence had moved to Seattle and the couple were divorced. In the late 1920s she helped raise money for a monument to be placed in Dead Horse Gulch, commemorating the thousands of pack animals that died transporting supplies to the gold fields. Florence M. Hartshorn died in Washington State in 1943.

The collection consists of an album of 17 prints and 14 loose prints, made by Mrs. Hartshorn and her husband, documenting the landscape of the region, entrepreneurs and residents during the Yukon gold rush, 1899-1900.

 Guide to the Florence M. Hartshorn photographs

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