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Winter and Pond photograph collection [graphic], 1934.
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Winter and Pond photograph collection [graphic], 1934.
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Physical Description:
1 album (62 photographs) : black and white ; 18 x 30 cm.
General Note:
Other Winter and Pond collections include: PCA 87, PCA 117, PCA 316.
In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
The album of 62 photographs is prefaced with the following [condensed]: "THE TRAIL OF '98, thirty-six years ago, portrayed in rare and original photographs direct from life by Lloyd V. Winter and E.P. Pond, is still a path of wild charm singularly beautiful in its historical appeal. These striking pictures take you back at the almost forgotten beginning of a drama to which the future of Alaska is intimately linked. ... Winter and Pond photographs of that dimming period afford an easy means to recapture the lost mood of thirty-six years ago, a delightful way to reconstruct the first episode-THE TRAIL OF '98-which in the retrospect of 1934 appears more pregnant than at any time since those intrepid pioneers, nourished on the yeasty word "gold," trekked into an untouched, primeval wilderness in quest of "pay streaks" that were still dreams. ... The photographs of that feverish stampede to the new bonanza are a perfect exhibit of man's courage and perseverance reduced to its crudest terms. No search of detail here. Each picture is crammed with reality which reinforces every turn of the photographic record itself."
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Biographical/Historical Data:
Lloyd Valentine Winter (1866-1945) and Edwin Percy Pond (1872-1943) were prominent Alaskan photographers. In 1893, Winter came to Juneau from San Francisco and entered a partnership with George M. Landerkin, known as Landerkin and Winter. In 1894, his long time friend E.P. Pond bought out Landerkin. Winter and Pond served as official Alaska photographers for the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. During the gold rush, Winter was appointed official photographer for the firm of Underwood and Underwood and "Leslie's Weekly" to cover gold rush activities on the Dyea and White Pass trails to the Klondike. Winter and Pond operated their Juneau-based curio shop and photography studio for over 50 years until Pond's death at age 71 in 1943. In 1945, Lloyd Winter turned the business over to Francis Harrison, who maintained the Winter & Pond Co. until 1956.
Restrictions on Access:
Collection is open to research.
Variant Title:
Trail of '98, thirty-six years ago