Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 2,880
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 3,400
GOETZMAN, HENRY J. (1864 -?)
Pair of variant prints of the Chilkoot Pass (en route to Klondike Gold Fields). Together, 2 photographs. Enlarged silver prints, approximately 15x19 inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), each with Goetzman's title, Dawson copyright and numeric notation in the negative. 1898; printed circa 1910-1920s

Additional Details

The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 143.
Immigrants may be seen streaming across the American border into the Canadian gold fields. From Chilkoot Pass it was still another five hundred miles to prime Yukon mining, near Dawson City. Note the tram lines overhead, available to all who could afford them (most immigrants walked).