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Arctic Brotherhood collection

  • CA mac mac-7
  • Collection
  • [1902-1940]

The collection consists of application forms and a withdrawal card, a booklet containing the "Constitution of the Grand Camp, Arctic Brotherhood and Constitution and By-Laws of the Subordinate Camps", the "Closing Ode" song sheet, sheet music by Gideon Pepin and correspondence. The photographs capture the Arctic Brotherhood Hall in Skagway, Alaska and the indoor baseball team.

MacBride Museum

Arrow Lakes Historical Society collection

  • CA mac mac-78
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1960]

The collection consists of a series of photographs of the sternwheeler Keno prior to her last trip down the Yukon River in 1960. Images include the foredeck, crew loading wood, and interior shots of the boiler room, engine room, pilot house, galley, and dining room. The collection also contains photographs of a First Nation cemetery in Whitehorse, MacBride Museum, the Tarahne in dry dock in Atlin, and the Tutshi in dry dock at Carcross.

Arrow Lakes Historical Society

Canadian Museum of Civilization collection

  • CA mac mac-49
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898]

The collection consists of photographs of Klondike dance hall girls from Dawson City, Yukon.

Canadian Museum of Civilization

Chilkoot Trail collection

  • CA mac mac-34
  • Collection
  • 1897, [ca. 1980]

The collection consists of a letter and diary. The letter was written by W.P. Cellbish [?] to his father December 1897 from Lake Lindeman describing his experiences in getting to and hiking the Chilkoot Trail. The diary, written by an unidentified individual, documents a trip from Dawson City, Alaska to Whitehorse, to Skagway by train, and Dyea to Bennett Lake via the Chilkoot Trail.

MacBride Museum

City of Whitehorse collection

  • CA mac mac-113
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900, ca. 1950]

The collection consists of six black and white studio portraits of the first City Council of Whitehorse, Mayor Gordon Armstrong, City Clerk Percy Hewitt, Alderman Bill Hamilton, Jimmy Harrington, Sammy McClinton and George Ryder. These six photos were acquired as a unit since they were mounted together in a frame. Also included is a collection of five black and white photographs of North West Mounted Police (NWMP).

City of Whitehorse

Dave Schuckert collection

  • CA mac mac-23
  • Collection
  • 1947

The collection consists of the White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) Daily Log 1947 of the sternwheeler "Whitehorse".

Schuckert, Dave

Edo Nyland collection

  • CA mac mac-54
  • Collection
  • 1937-1962

The collection consists of two albums with photographs and a number of loose photographs. The latter group includes professional portraits of small children, a school group, a couple and a wedding party of four. Captions in the small album identify individuals, family members, locations and events. The first recorded date is February 3, 1952. The general content is group shots of family and friends in various homes. There is a series of photographs recording a bus trip from Winnipeg to Vancouver and a series taken at Whiteshell Forest Reserve, West Hawk Lake, Manitoba. The larger album contains photographs of various sizes, many with captions, and cartoon drawings. The original theme of the album was a record of World War II [RCAF?] service. Generally young men in uniform, in and around Military Aircraft. Following the military photographs is a series of photographs of Bert and Pat's wedding March 16,1947. Some of the individuals identified in the albums are Bob Wellman, Russell Arthur Wreggitt, Chuck and Mary Horton, Glen Fraser, Bud Macdonell, Grandad Nesbitt and Robert Edward Lewis.

Nyland, Edo

E.P. Skubiski collection

  • CA mac mac-47
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1898-1904]

The collection consists of photographs taken by professional photographers. Eight of the photographs were taken by White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&YR) contract photographer H.C. Barley, three photographs were taken by E.A. Hegg and three by an unknown photographer. The Barley prints are of Dyea as seen from a wharf, a view of Skagway looking west, a vegetable garden in Skagway, Johnson Glacier, Black Lake near Skagway, and waterfalls Middle Prong Pitchfork, Little Niagara and Danon and Pythias. Presumably these are natural features along the White Pass and Yukon Route Railway. The Hegg prints were taken during the Klondike Gold Rush and include "Scales and Summit of the Chilkoot Pass", "The Whitehorse Rapids" and "Falls West of Skagway". The unidentified photographer prints are two images, nearly identical, of a group of people posing at an unknown location and another image of a group of people on a footbridge at Atlin Lake.

Skubiski, E.P.

Flora and fauna photograph collection

  • CA mac mac-53
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1932-1936]

The collection consists of photographs of animals, plants and Ice Age bones. The photographs were part of unidentified collections and were organized under the title "Flora and Fauna" for research and exhibit purposes. They are of various sizes and formats and most were taken by amateurs although several were prints produced by well known photographers. Subject matter includes animals in natural settings - black bears and grizzlies, moose, caribou, mountain goats, Dall sheep, and a bison. There are numerous photographs of young animals, including bears, moose and rabbits, in captivity. The collection includes images of trophy game, water foul and game birds, sled dogs and huskies and a few images of flowers and gardens, and mammoth bones.

MacBride Museum

Florence Cust collection

  • CA mac mac-85
  • Collection
  • 1942-1945

The collection consists of photographs of interior views of the hospital barracks, an operating room, pharmacy, dental office, United States Air Force (USAF) bunkhouse, army kitchen, United States army hospital personnel posing outside and a view of the army compound, Camp Takhini, in Whitehorse. Florence Cust collected these photographs, which may have been taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, when she was working in Whitehorse, Yukon.

Cust, Florence

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