Nov 21 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2687 -

Sale 2687 - Lot 73

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(CANADA.) Floyd W. Sheelor, photographer. Panoramic view of the Gold Rush boomtown of Dawson City, Yukon Territory. Gelatin silver photograph, 12 x 60 inches, credited and captioned "Dawson City Y.T." in negative; minor wear including one full vertical fold. Dawson City, YT, circa 1915
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In the foreground are the docks of the White Pass & Yukon Route, which ran boats south upstream from Dawson to Whitehorse and then connected with a rail line to the port at Skagway, serving as remote Dawson's main lifeline. To the right, gangways can be seen over the Yukon River mudflats. To the far right, across where the Klondike River feeds into the Yukon, are the Gold Rush cabins at what is now the Tr'ochëk First Nations settlement.

The photographer Sheelor, who specialized in panoramic views, completed a trip down the Yukon on 11 December 1915, having taken views in Dawson and other settlements, per the Valdez Daily Prospector of that date. We have traced no institutional examples of this image.

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