P.E. Lars (Per Edward Larss), son of Lars Nilsson, came to the United States from Sweden in 1881 at age 18. His early photography work was with the Oswald Brothers in Minneapolis and in 1888 he opened a private studio under the name P.E. Larss in Cloquet, Minnesota. Later he formed a partnership, Larss and Boyer Bros., Photographers, in Duluth. In 1892, he was in Nanaimo, British Columbia, with W.C. Pierce at the Elite Studio. When the gold rush began, Lars met and went to work for E.A. Hegg in Skagway as photographer for the Chilkoot Pass. In 1899, Larss formed a partnership with J.E.N. Duclos. Entries in Larss' journals, which he kept from 1892 to 1905, give a brief picture of his life as a photographer and gold miner as well as his social activities as a young bachelor. In 1904, he left the Yukon and married Hilda Johnson in Denver, Colorado and in 1905 he established himself as a photographer in Goldfield, Nevada. In 1908, he was proprietor of a hotel and general store in Allegheny, Oregon. He moved to San Pedro, California, in 1920 and remained there until his death in 1941. [From: The papers and photographs of P.E. Larss; Klondike Photographer and Miner, 1898-1904," Alaska Historical Library, 1978.]