Asahel Curtis and companion on Skagway Trail, ca. 1897

• Main Author: Curtis, Asahel, 1874-1941
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Cameras; Camping; Gold rushes; Photographers; Tents; Trails & paths; White Pass; Yukon; Skagway; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7072

Seattleite Asahel Curtis left for the Klondike in 1897 and stayed two years, taking photos for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. With today's tiny cameras and one-hour printing, it is easy to forget that he and the other gold rush photographers had to haul hundreds of pounds of glass photographic...