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The Klondike nugget : Dawson's pioneer paper
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Our trip across Alaska and Klondike as far as Dawson City
Visual Materials
Bound photograph album containing 49 black-and-white snapshots documenting a trip by Alfred and Charles O'Meara in May-August 1899 from Skagway, Alaska, into the Yukon Territory, Canada, to their gold mining claim sites at Last Chance Creek, thirty miles from Dawson City. Each image is accompanied by a descriptive handwritten caption chronicling the trip. The images depict landscapes; travel by foot, mule, and canoe; camping; rivers; steamships; town sites; and mining and mining sites. Depicted locations include: the Dyea Trail; Chilkoot Pass; Lindermann Lake; Lake Bennett; Bennett City; Taglish Lake, Marsh Lake, Lake Lebarge; Hootalinqua Station; the Bib Salmon River Police Station; Lewes River; Fort Selkirk; Yukon River; Stewart City; Dawson City; and Last Chance Creek. Some notable photographs include a photograph of the wooden tracks of the tramway at Miles Canyon (No. 25); a boat on White Horse Rapids (No. 30); the wreck of the steamer Domville (No. 37); and the Steamer Golden Star (No. 39).
photCL 196
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O. S. Dawson papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence and documents related to the legal and business affairs of O. S. Dawson, the Sonora Consolidated Mining Company and the Hidden Treasure Consolidated Mining Company in Bodie Mining District, California, and the Ramsey-Ottawa Mining Company in Nevada. It includes receipts, plats, reports, notices of mining locations, surveys, and financial accounts. The letters, written by Dawson and various business partners and mine managers, discuss details about the management of mines, possible lawsuits, outstanding debts, and possible mine purchases in California and Nevada; there is one item regarding mining in Utah. The collection contains 78 pieces of ephemera, including three cartes-de-visite of O. S. Dawson.
mssHM 65681-65748
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Pioneer Roll Paper Co
Manuscripts
The documents provide insight into the business history and practices of the South Riverside Land and Water Company as well as the Jameson Packing House, which shipped citrus fruit, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
mssSouth Riverside Land and Water Company records