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National Anthropological Archives
Alice Rollins Crane photograph collection relating to the Yukon, circa 1901
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.162
- Creators:
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Crane, Alice Rollins
- Dates:
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circa 1901
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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10 Printsalbumen and silver gelatin
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs collected by Alice Rollins Crane relating to a trip to the Yukon territory, including images of Athapaskan people. There is also an image of five members of the party pulling sleds, with the caption "first lady stampeder on Thistle Creek," possibly referring to Rollins. The collection also includes an Elliott and Fry portrait of William Ogilvie, Commissioner of the Yukon territory.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Alice Rollins Crane (ca. 1861-1929) was a dog sledder and amateur anthropologist in the Yukon and Klondike region. She married L. P. Crane in Los Angeles in 1894 and about four years later the couple moved to Dawson City in the Yukon, probably as part of the Klondike gold rush. In 1903, she remarried, this time to Victor Morajeski, and moved with him to Colorado and then the Tucson area, where they owned and operated a silver mine. Crane wrote about her experience in the Yukon in "Our Klondike Success," published in Wide World Magazine in 1901, and "Smiles and Tears from the Klondyke," published in New York by Doxey's at the Sign of the Lark.
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
Donated by Alice Rollins Crane to the United States National Museum in 1901 (accession 37470). One photograph transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by the National Museum of American History's Division of Domestic Life, Cultural History, in 1981.
Processing Information
Photo Lot 162 was removed from Photo Lot 82-3. Five photographs collected by Crane, previously filed in Photo Lot 125 and Photo Lot 24, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 162.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 162, Alice Rollins Crane photograph collection relating to the Yukon, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 162
, USNM ACC 37470
Bibliography
Bibliography
Photographs published in Alice Rollins Crane, "Smiles and Tears from the Klondyke: A Collection of Stories and Sketches," New York: Doxey's at the Sign of the Lark, 1901.
Addl. KW Subj
Addl. KW Subj
Athabaskan
Keywords
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Athapascan Indians | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Yukon | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Arctic peoples | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Subarctic | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Elliott & Fry | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Ogilvie, William, 1846-1912 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Hegg, E. A. | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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