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Phil Lind Klondike Gold Rush collection
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The series contains textual records pertaining to the Klondike Gold Rush. The records reflect major activities such as commerce, travel, mining, and tourism in the Klondike. Legal records documenting the mining boom, including mining claims, grants, stock certificates, and court documents are present throughout the series. Records of individual miners and mining companies are included in the series as well as those of prevalent government bodies, including the office of the Gold Commissioner and the Department of the Interior. In addition to these activities, the series also reflects various works of individuals who journeyed north to the Klondike during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as promotional and informational material developed by travel and outfitting agencies. The series also contains records related to the Lind family’s personal connection to the Yukon, including the unpublished account of John G. Lind’s trip to the Klondike.

Significant record types include correspondence, receipts and checks, pamphlets and printed volumes, advertisements, postcards, diaries and journals, newspapers and newspaper clippings, sheet music, theatre programs, as well as guidebooks and souvenir books

[Letter from Walter Church and Walter C. Teter to Wilson L. Robinson. Together with The first returns from the Yukon]

Letter from Walter Church, Mining Engineer and Walter C. Teter, Mining Broker, San Francisco dated Jan. 20, 1896 to Wilson L. Robinson of Canton, NY. Mimeographed sheet seeking men for the mining camps in Alaska Gold Fields. Together with: The First Returns From the Yukon, a four page booklet listing the first men to return from the gold fields of the Yukon, their addresses and the approximate amounts brought out by each in gold dust and nuggets. Compiled by Church & Teter, Mining Engineers and Brokers, Mills Building, San Francisco, California and Juneau, Alaska.

Church, Walter

Western British American. Vol. XX, No. 17, April 23, 1898

Includes the article "Routes to the Yukon ... Why all Canadian is best". Provides early information on routes to the Klondike, including details on the overland route, the all-Canadian route (also known as the "poor man's route"), the all-water route, and other aspects of travel and outfitting. The front page has an illustration of the Yukon River at Miles Canyon, described as a "monster water toboggan."

Western British American

[Letterhead]

Letterhead illustrated with the coat-of-arms of Yukon Territory atop a maple leaf branch and photographs of Five Finger Raids, a Pyramid of Gold Bars, and a Prospector.

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