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English: Men looking for bodies after the Palm Sunday Avalanche near Sheep Camp, Chilkoot Trail, Alaska, April 3 or 4, 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
George G. Cantwell  (fl. 1910)  wikidata:Q62641868
 
Alternative names
G. G. Cantwell
Description American photographer
Location of birth Puyallup
Work period 1910 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q62641868
Title
English: Men looking for bodies after the Palm Sunday Avalanche near Sheep Camp, Chilkoot Trail, Alaska, April 3 or 4, 1898
Description
English:

Caption on image: Sheep Camp snow slide. PH Coll 298.2

George G. Cantwell, a native of Puyallup, Washington, came to Dawson from Juneau in 1898 where he was employed by E.A. Hegg. In 1899, he entered into a business partnership with Frederic N. Atwood. Their specialty was Alaskan views, outdoor portraiture, finishing, and supplies for amateurs. The partnership seems to have dissolved after June 1901, and Cantwell returned to Puyallup by September of that year. Sheep Camp was the last "city" before Chilkoot Pass and was packed with thousands of stampeders, especially when bad weather slowed travel over the pass. At the height of the Klondike Stampede, it contained 16 hotels, 14 restaurants, 3 saloons, 2 dance halls, and a post office.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Avalanches--Alaska; Trails & paths--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Chilkoot Trail
Depicted place
English: United States--Alaska--Sheep Camp
Date Taken on 3 April 1898
Medium
English: b&w
Dimensions height: 4.7 in (12 cm); width: 7 in (17.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,4.75U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,7U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
2998
Source
English: Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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