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Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Tappan Adney collection
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- Parallel titles and other title information: Please note: some original photograph titles contain outdated terminology. Titles have been updated with legacy titles retained for reference.
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Reference code
CA RBD MSG 1368
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Statement of scale (cartographic)
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Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
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Physical description
466 photographs : black and white negatives
65 photographs : black and white
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Archival description area
Name of creator
(1868-1950)
Biographical history
American-Canadian artist, writer, and photographer.
Custodial history
Scope and content
The collection consists of 287 negatives, 65 prints and 179 copy negatives from photographer Tappan Adney. The collection documents his passage in the Yukon, Alaska and British Columbia during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. The negatives depict various geographic landscapes, people and animals, settlements, and day-to-day mining activities in numerous locations, such as, Dawson, Skagway, Lower Yukon, Bonanza Creek, El Dorado, Chilkoot Trail, Nome, Dyea, Skookumchuck, Hunker Creek, Tagish and Dutch Harbor.
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Arrangement
Collection includes original negatives as well as some duplicate negatives and photograph prints. Collection has been arranged into series accordingly.
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Finding aids
Also described in McGill Libraries catalogue.