REFERENCE CODE: AkAMH

REPOSITORY NAME:
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
Bob and Evangeline Atwood Alaska Resource Center
625 C Street
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-929-9235
Fax: 907-929-9233
Email: resourcecenter@anchoragemuseum.org

Guide prepared by: Bruce Merrell, Museum Volunteer

TITLE: Gold Rush Era Photograph Album

COLLECTION NUMBER: B2006.003

OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

Dates: 1898 - 1901

Extent: 46 photographs

Language and Scripts: The collection is in English.

Name of creator(s): H. C. Barley, Case & Draper, S&H [Nome], O. D. Goetze, E. A. Hegg

Administrative/Biographical History:
Photos by commercial photographers were apparently acquired at the height of the Alaska gold
rush and mounted in the album by an unknown collector.

Scope and Content Description:
The collection consists of 46 black and white photographs of gold rush subject matter, primarily
in the Skagway and Nome areas. A few photos are of Wardner, Idaho, and Seattle, Washington.
Images .21 and .22 are of unidentified men in a photo studio, possibly the collectors who put
the album together? Photo credits for the images include H. C. Barley, Case & Draper, S&H
[Nome], O. D. Goetze, and E. A. Hegg,

Arrangement: Not applicable.


CONDITIONS GOVERNING ACCESS AND USE

Restrictions on Access: The collection is open for research use.


Physical Access: Original items in good condition, although some photos are faded. Photos are
mounted on cardboard in 8 ½” by 11” album with detached cover.

Technical Access: No special equipment is needed to access the materials.

Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use:
The Anchorage Museum is the owner of the materials and makes available reproductions for
research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Anchorage
Museum before any reproduction use. The Anchorage Museum does not necessarily hold
copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may
require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation:
Gold Rush Era Photograph Album, Anchorage Museum, B2006.003


ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Acquisition and Appraisal Information:
Loaned to the museum by Amy Haddow of Seward in 2006, and donated in July 2011. Album
was purchased by donor’s husband from “a friend and fellow collector who lives in San Mateo,
CA.”

RELATED MATERIALS

SUBJECTS
Smith, Jefferson Randolph, 1860-1898
Hospitals
Kayaks
Labrets
Wardner (Idaho)
Skagway (Alaska)
Nome (Alaska)
White Pass & Yukon Route

Detailed Description of the Collection

.1 Sightseeing party at Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mine. Wardner, Idaho.
.2 Wardner [Idaho] Mandolin and Guitar Club.
.3 Wardner [Idaho] Hospital.
.4 Ore Tramway carrying ore from Bunker Hill mine to the concentrator, two miles away.
Passes over Wardner, Idaho.
--[image missing from album; caption: “County Employees. Seattle, Wash.”]
.5 Construction on W[hite] P[ass] & Y[ukon] R.R. at Porcupine Hill. [photo by H. G. Barley,
image #112, with two horse teams and men with hand tools in railroad cut]

.6 Construction on W. P. & Y. R.R. [photo by H. G. Barley, image #149, “Blasting,” railroad
bed with wheelbarrow in foreground, dust from blast in background]
--[image missing from album; caption: “Soapy Smith,. Killed by Frank Reid at Skagway,
Alaska, July 8, 1898.”
.7 Frank Reid, shot by Soapy Smith at Skagway July 8, 1898. Died July 20, 1898. [Caption on
photo: “Frank Ried / Bishop Rowe Hospital.” Reid is lying in bed with arms crossed, eyes
open]
.8 Holding Post Mortem on Soapy Smith [three men examining Smith’s bullet wounds]
.9 [Four men, one with cigar in hand, examining Smith’s wounds. Photo by Case & Draper]
.10 The ringleaders enroute for the penitentiary [four men, two bound together with handcuffs,
on board ship with “Upper Deck” sign in background. On image .12 below, these four are
identified, left to right as “Slim Jim, Bowers, Jackson, and Tripp—On their way to Sitka”]
--[image missing from album; caption: “Some of “de gang””]
--[image missing from album; caption: “Rounding up Soapy Smith’s gang.”
.11 Soapy Smith as Marshal July 4^th
/ [Smith mounted on white horse]
.12 Actors and Scenes in the Soapy Smith Tragedy [thirteen images on one print; some with
captions: “Public Funeral of Frank H. Reid,” “Frank Reid and Attendents, Bishop Rowe
Hospital,” “The Last Resting Place of Frank H. Reid,” “U.S. Commissioner C. A. Sehlbrede,”
“Stewart and His Sack of Gold,” “U.S. Marshal J. M Shoup,” “Slim Jim, Bowers, Jackson,
Tripp—On Their Way to Sitka,” and “Roundup of the Soapy Smith Gang.”
.13 Construction on W.P. and Y. R.R. at Porcupine Hill. [photo by H. G. Barley, captioned
“Porcupine Point Aug 23, 1898,” dozens of men and women on cliff-side cut, steam boiler in
background]
.14 View of Lynn Canal from mountains above Skagway [photo by H. G. Barley, image #164]
.15 Construction on W.P. & Y R.R. at White Pass City [photo by H. G. Barley, captioned
“Rock Workers on Tunnel Mt.,” image #228]
.16 Alaska Scenery, White Pass and Yukon Railway [photo by H. G. Barley, five men, two
dogs and a cat, with wooden barrels, in front of white canvas wall tent, image #168]
.17 Hugh Toy, Supt. Construction / F. B. Whiting, Surgeon / M. J. Heney, Contractor / E. C.
Hawkins, Chief Eng. / Graves, President / John Hislop, Asst. Chief Eng. [photo by H. G.
Barley, six men and dog in front of white canvas wall tent]
.18 King County Hospital [Seattle; woman in horse-drawn buggy]
.19 Excursion on W.P.&Y.R.R. [photo captioned “Officials White Pass & Yukon R.R. Enroute
to Bennett to Drive the Last Spike, July 6 99”]
.20 W. P. and Yukon Hospital Skagway.
.21 [studio images of unidentified men, by Case & Draper, Skagway, Alaska]
.22 [studio images of unidentified man with dogs, Case & Draper, Skagway, Alaska]
.23 S.S. Cutch Arriving at Skagway in Winter [ice-covered ship at dock with men on foredeck,
photo by Barley, Skagway]
.24 Snow Plough on W.P.&Y.R.R. [rotary plow in action at Tunnel trestle]
.25 Reindeer Teams and Drivers
.26 Eskimo family [photo by “S&H Nome 241”]
.27 Reindeer Team and Driver. [two reindeer hitched to sled]
.28 Fourth of July at Nome. [photo by O. D. G[oetze], captioned The Parade on Fourth of July.
1901. Nome Alaska.]
.29 Wreck of the “Skookum.” [barge destroyed in storm; photo by “S&H. Nome. 46”]

.30 [Man and woman dressed in furs, the women sitting on sled pulled by black dog, the man
jigging for fish through the ice]
.31 Steamboat! It’s the Jeanie! May 24 11pm 1901 [crowd standing on ice as ship floats
offshore—first ship of the season?—photo by “S.&H. Nome”
.32 Y[ukon] O[rder] O[f] P[ioneers / Nome July 4^th
/ 1901 [downtown Nome parade, men with
sashes; photo by E. A. Hegg]
.33 [waves on beach; photo captioned S&H 247A]
.34 Esquimos [four men (one wearing Lapp headgear), one woman and four children; photo by
E. A. Hegg, 1900]
.35 Laplanders Milking Raindeer at Port Clarense, Alaska / Copyright 1900 / E. A. Hegg,
image #1348
.36 Eskimo Boys Carving Ivory [three seated figures with tonsured hair, working on walrus
tusks; photo by E. A. Hegg]
.37 Eskimo House Siberia [large skin dwelling with stovepipe, Natives and dog in front, and
one non-Native man; photo by E. A. Hegg]
.38 Laplanders / Copyright 1901; photo by E. A. Hegg, image #1445
.39 Grup of Young Eskimos Alaska; photo by E. A. Hegg
.40 [Eskimo woman in furs standing by campfire, children in background]
.41 [Three men in kayaks next to ship, one man with labrets and visor; deck gear on kayaks
plainly visible including grass or wicker covered bottle]
.42 No 1 Bench Below Snow Gulch on Right Lemit of Glacier [miners with shovels, gold pans,
and rockers—Nome?; photo by E. A. Hegg]
.43 Largest Nugget Ever Found in Alaska. From Pioneer Mining Co’s. Claim Discovery Anvil
Creek. Nome. Sept 14. 1901 Weight 97. oz. Value $1552.00 [photo by E. A. Hegg]
.44 Launch Evelyn Drifting Ashore over Skookum Wreck. July 9-1901 [photo by E. A. Hegg]
.45 R.R. Hospital [canvas tent hospital, patients in beds, with medicines and telephone visible
at far end—White Pass Railway?—photo by Barley]
.46 Soapy and His Gun [Soapy Smith lying dead on bed, with revolver on bedspread; photo by
H. G. Barley, image #264]

Guide written: March 29, 2012