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GeneralA historic find in Dawson, Yukon Territory

30th Jun 2018 12:14 UTCLarry Maltby Expert

Years ago a lady rented a cabin in Dawson. While repairing some damage to one of the walls she reached in between the outer and inner wall and cut her finger. She began pulling pieces of glass out of what appeared to be sawdust insulation. She thought that she may be able to use the glass to make a greenhouse except the glass was not clear; it had a foggy substance on it. She asked her boss, a jeweler, if he knew a way to clean the glass. The jeweler looked at the glass and offered to buy her new glass for her greenhouse if she would give the foggy glass to him. A large cache of E. A. Hegg’s original glass plate negatives of the Klondike Gold Rush was saved for history.


Reference, M. Morgan and Eric A. Hegg, “One Man’s Gold Rush” University of Washington Press, 1967

30th Jun 2018 13:54 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

A historic find indeed!

Are these displayed anywhere?

30th Jun 2018 16:00 UTCLarry Maltby Expert

Paul,


If you Google “Klondike Gold Rush” and click on images you will see hundreds of old photos. Probably 90% will be E. A. Hegg’s photos. The glass plates were heavy and Hegg stashed caches at various localities. Several people recognized the value and began saving his work. He also had 43 large albums of prints made from his negatives. Thirty three of these were found and saved, some pulled out of a garbage truck. The remaining 10 have never been found. In 1963 Mrs. Becker’s collection was obtained by the University of Washington. I believe the Glass plates and the 33 albums are in the University library.


By the way, we can thank Gunter Grundmann for the many Klondike photos from his post card collection. They are unique! Wouldn’t it be interesting if some of them were from the missing albums.

1st Jul 2018 05:34 UTCPaul Brandes 🌟 Manager

Very interesting, Larry!


I remember when I did the inventory of historic items for the Copper Country Archives in the old C&H buildings, there were numerous glass plates from the Keweenaw including several by J.T. Reeder. Many know Reeder as a prolific mineral collector, but he was also an accomplished photographer in his day.
 
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