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Yukon First Nations crafts exhibit fonds

  • CA dcm dcm-118
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1977-1979]

This collection consists of photographs from a photograph essay on traditional Yukon First Nations crafts including making snowshoes, tanning and smoking hides, preparing babiche, skinning fish, making a bark moose caller, toys, handicrafts and garments. Also environmental portraits of such local figures as Joe Henry, Eliza Farr and Ida Jonas. Some of the photographs were taken at Joe Henry's cabin at Wolfe Creek on the Dempster Highway, Yukon. Photographs were taken by Dawson City Museum employees Kathy Toombs and Sally Robinson, ca. 1977-1979.

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Ridge Road collection

  • CA dcm dcm-185
  • Collection
  • 1994

Greg Skuce and Barbara Hogan, financed by the Northern Research Institute and sponsored by the Dawson City Museum, have been working on an inventory of the historic resources of the Ridge Road. This collection includes a report, negative film (7 rolls B&W 35mm) and transparency slide film (6 rolls colour 35mm).

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Reflections of the North Exhibit fonds

  • CA dcm dcm-117
  • Fonds
  • 1983

This collection contains 12 colour negatives made during the development of a poster to advertise Reflections of the North Exhibit in July of 1983 at the Dawson City Museum, Dawson City, Yukon. It also includes one 11 x 14 camera ready collage print and a 16 x 20 photographic sepia toned poster. The Dawson City Museum generated this material during the course of the development of the Reflections of the North Exhibit.

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Overland Trail collection

  • CA dcm dcm-186
  • Collection
  • 1994

Barbara Hogan and Greg Skuce investigated nine possible roadhouse locations and two farms on the northern section of the Overland Trail during the summer of 1994. The northern section is defined as the area between Dawson and the Stewart River.

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Dawson City walking tour collection

  • CA dcm dcm-122
  • Collection
  • 1978

This collection contains photographs of buildings and structures of historical interest in the downtown area of Dawson City, Yukon. These images were taken during a walking tour project by Joy Brown, an employee of Dawson City Museum, in 1978. Some of the buildings include the Occidental Hotel, Flora Dora Hotel, Red Feather Saloon, Ruby's Place, Old Territorial Administration Building, Jack London Square, S.S. Keno, St. Paul's Anglican church, St. Mary's Catholic church, Downtown Hotel, Caley's Store, Westminster Hotel, Harrington's Store, North West Mounted Police (NWMP) residence, Schrieber house, Pattallo and Jeckell house, and Treadgold house.

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Dawson City Museum Early Klondike collection

  • CA dcm dcm-109
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1946]

These photographs were collected by the Dawson City Museum and arranged by subject. The images were taken by various professional photographers including Larss & Duclos, Goetzman, Adams & Co., E. A. Hegg, Duclos, and E. O. Ellingsen. Photographs include images of routes to the Klondike including the Chilkoot and Skagway; Dawson City, Yukon events including 4th of July, May 24th (Victoria Day), dog teams, the first car; streetscapes including Avery Groceries, Dawson Daily News, Jimmy's Place, Fairview Hotel, etc.; Transportation including Klondike Mines Railway (KMR) and sternwheelers, Gold Fields, North West Mounted Police (NWMP) and First Nations.

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Dawson City Museum gold mining collection

  • CA dcm dcm-112
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1946]

This collection contains photographs relating to gold mining in the Klondike gathered, based on subject, by the Dawson City Museum, Yukon. Subject matter represented includes early mining camps, sluicing, panning, dredges and caterpillars.

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Dawson City Museum slide presentation collection

  • CA dcm dcm-86
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900-1920]

This collection consists of 36 hand coloured lantern slides that make up four separate slide presentation stories. These slide presentations have 2 pages of sheet music with sing along chorus and music scores to accompany the slide presentation. The four slide presentations are titled, "Skipper Susie Green", "When the Autumn Leaves are Falling", "Neath the Old Corn Tree, Sweet Estelle", and "It's got to be some one I love". None of these slide presentation are complete. These presentations were shown at Dawson City, Yukon.

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Dawson City Museum transportation collection

  • CA dcm dcm-111
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1946]

This collection contains photographs collected by the Dawson City Museum, Yukon from various and unknown sources and arranged by the subject of transportation. Scenes represented include early aircraft (The Northern Light), and glider, Yukon River sternwheelers (Nasutlin, Lightning, Casca, Dawson, Clifford Sifton, Victorian), and barges, small dog sleds (including passengers Coutts, Kinsey), pack trains (Kennedy), horse teams (Rouse), bridges and floating of fire wood down Yukon River.

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Dawson City Museum portraits collection

  • CA dcm dcm-116
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900-1970]

This collection consists of photographic portraits collected by the Dawson City Museum, Yukon from various and unknown sources, and arranged according to subject. The portraits have been divided into five separate categories which include; 20 amateur portraits with identification, 13 unidentified professional portraits, 11 card mounted studio portraits with photographers imprint all from studios outside the Yukon, 9 card mounted studio portraits all from Yukon studios, and 11 well known Yukon personalities (including Donald Purdy, Bishop Stringer, Robert Service, Geo. Johansson, Harry Leamon and Black Mike, Archie Black, Klondike Kate, George Dawson and Xhuzume (a.k.a. Madame Zoom).

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