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| Title Notes |
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Title is based on provenance of the fonds.
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| Level of Description |
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Fonds
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| Dates of Creation |
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1890-1982, predominant 1897-1903
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| Physical Description |
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369 photographs : 289 b&w glass plate negatives, 77 b&w negs., 3 b&w copy negs.
4 objects
1 folder of textual records
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| Scope and Content |
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This fonds consists of photographs and textual records created by and documenting Anton Vogee's life and work as a sign painter and photographer in Portland, Dyea, Skagway, Atlin, Pine City, and Dawson City.
The photographs, taken by Anton Vogee from ca. 1896 to ca. 1906, capture his participation in the Klondike Gold Rush through related areas in Oregon, Alaska, British Columbia, and the Yukon. The images include businesses and street scenes in the communities he resided, scenes of the Dyea Trail and Chilkoot Pass including an avalanche in 1898, the White Pass, views of Bennett and Whitehorse, miners and mining activity (particularly in the Atlin Mining District including Pine Creek and Spruce Creek), methods of transportation including steamships and pack trains, White Pass & Yukon Route (WP&YR) infrastructure and sternwheelers, leisure activities, scenic views, portraits, and exterior views of Vogee's shops and galleries in Portland, Dyea, Atlin, Pine City, and Dawson City. Many of the signs featured in photographs were likely painted by Vogee. Vogee, his wife Inga, and son Arthur appear in some of the photographs. Also included are four box lids for photographic glass plate packages (#323-#326) (82/271).
The fonds also contains photocopies of newspaper clippings, correspondence, display captions and three photographs relating to the 1973 Yukon House exhibit in Vancouver featuring Anton Vogee's photographs and memorabilia, photocopies of his citizenship papers, his son Arthur's birth certificate, stock certificates, personal correspondence, and a biographical sketch with revision notes made by Arthur Vogee in 1982 (82/523).
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| Administrative History or Biographical Sketch |
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Click on the link(s) below for more information.
Vogee, Anton, 1867-1950
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| Custodial History |
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Arthur Vogee, son of Anton Vogee, inherited the material in accession 82/271 and donated it to Yukon Archives in 1972 (82/271).
Photographs taken at a 1973 Yukon House display in Vancouver, and other documents relating to Anton Vogee, were loaned to Yukon Archives for copying in 1982 by Arthur Vogee of Vancouver, BC (82/523).
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| Restrictions on Access |
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There are no donor-imposed restrictions on this material. General copyright or institutional or legal restrictions may apply.
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| Notes |
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Item level Title, Scope and Content, and Dates of Creation information for accession 82/271 taken from photographs and for accession 82/523 supplied by donor. Information in square brackets [ ] provided by Archivist.
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| Arrangement |
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The archivist arranged the photographs in accession 82/271 alphabetically by assigned geographic location subject (i.e. community name) with deviations when photographs did not warrant a main geographic location subject.
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| Physical Description Notes |
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The glass plate negatives are various sizes from 10 x 12.5 cm to 20 x 25 cm.
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| Condition |
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Many of the negatives are damaged (i.e. flaking emulsion, cracks, breaks, tightly rolled).
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| Availability of Other Formats |
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Reference prints are available for most of the photographs.
Copy negatives are available for the photographs in 82/271.
The photographs in accession 82/271 have been digitized as Production Masters for access.
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| Finding Aid |
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Photocopies of the photographs in accession 82/271 are filed alphabetically by subject in the Photograph Visual Finding Aid in the Research Room.
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| Location of Original |
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The original three photographs and documents loaned in 1982 (82/523) are presumably held by Mary-Ann Williams, granddaughter of Anton Vogee.
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| Accession(s) |
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82/271, 82/523
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| Specific Location |
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1-370 (82/271) : Catalogued photographs
PHO 153 (82/523) : Photographs
GPN (82/271) : Catalogued photographs
MSS 122 (82/523) : Textual records
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| Record Last Modified |
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2021-10-31
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| Record URL |
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https://yukon.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/ARC/DESC/SISN%204941?SESSIONSEARCH
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