William L. Churchill Photograph Collection, ca. 1912
Scope and Contents
Photographs taken by Mr. Churchill depict placer mining, hard rock gold mining and related activities in 1912, during the Klondike gold rush. Some images document mining engineering practices such as brush retaining walls on streams and thawing of frozen ground to accommodate dredging.
Places depicted include the Klondike River, Yukon River, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Allard Bay [Alert Bay, B. C.], Bonanza Creek, Y. T., Dawson, Y. T.
Subjects also include totem poles, potlatch, light houses, glaciers, travel by steamships and railroad, and scenes of daily life in the Yukon and Alaska.
Dates
- ca. 1912
EAD
PCA0464Conditions Governing Access
The collection is available for viewing.
Conditions Governing Use
Request for permission to reproduce material from the collection should be discussed with the Librarian.
Biographical
William L. Churchill was an itinerant engineer who went to the Klondike gold fields from White Plains, New York, which was his permanent home when he was not traveling. He died in 1936.
Extent
162 Photographic Prints : 1 photograph album
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
William L. Churchill’s collection of Alaskan photographs was donated by his grandson, William L. Churchill, in 2006
Existence and Location of Copies
Photographs digitized and available for viewing via Alaska's Digital Archives: 098-101
Processing Information
The album is in fragile condition. Some album pages are loose, with a few photographs missing. The album was placed in an archival box. All album pages were interleaved.
- Title
- Finding aid for the William L. Churchill Photograph Collection, ca. 1912
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Processed by: James Simard, Sept. 2006 ; Revised by Sandra Johnston, Aug. 2015 ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by Sandy Johnston 2019 May ; Inventory added by: Sandy Johnston
- Date
- 2020 April
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids Repository
PO Box 110571
Juneau AK 99811-0571 US
907-465-2920
907-465-2925
907-465-2151 (Fax)
asl.historical@alaska.gov