L. Stark Humes collection of photographs of the Klondike region
Scope and Contents
Also present are stereographs produced by the Keystone View Company of Inuit men, women, and children of Kwigillingok, Alaska; and pages of a printed work by an unknown creator about Alaska.
Dates
- circa 1865-1939
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
9.42 Linear Feet (16 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Also present are stereographs produced by the Keystone View Company of Inuit men, women, and children of Kwigillingok, Alaska; and pages of a printed work by an unknown creator about Alaska.
Biographical / Historical
Processing Information
These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards. For more information, please refer to the Beinecke Manuscript Unit Processing Manual.
File titles have been transcribed from photograph captions; supplied captions are bracketed. Numbers assigned to photographs, if present (most often in the negative), are listed in parentheses. Exact dates (most often in the negative) have been transcribed from photographs; approximate dates have been supplied in cases where no date is present. Approximations made were based on dates typically associated with the photographer or photographic studio to which the image is attributed, on the content of the image, or on image annotations, if present.
- Alaska -- Gold discoveries
- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Alaska Natives -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Case & Draper
- Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
- Eskimo -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Gold miners -- Alaska -- 19th century
- Gold miners -- Alaska -- 20th century
- Gold miners -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Gold miners -- Yukon -- 19th century
- Gold miners -- Yukon -- 20th Century
- Gold miners -- Yukon -- Pictorial works
- Gold mines and mining -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Gold mines and mining -- Yukon -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Portraits
- Indians of North America -- Yukon -- Pictorial works
- Inuit -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Inuit -- Yukon -- Pictorial works
- Keystone View Company
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Pictorial works
- Mines and mineral resources -- Alaska -- Pictorial works
- Mines and mineral resources -- Yukon -- Pictorial works
- Native Village of Kwigillingok -- Pictorial works
- Photographic prints
- Photographs
- Stereographs
- Yukon -- Gold discoveries
- Yukon -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the L. Stark Humes Collection of Photographs of the Klondike Region
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Matthew Daniel Mason and Sarah Lerner
- Date
- March 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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