Author: BECKER, ETHEL ANDERSON
Title: Klondike '98
Description: Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1958. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. A. Hegg. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of wear and tear, along with a large chip missing to the top spine end. "One day in 1921, young Ethel Anderson visited Eric Hegg's photography studio in Bellingham, Washington. She wanted his permission to try and gather together his photos of the Klondike that he had taken back in 1898-99." It can't be done", said the photographer. "They are scattered far and wide." Twenty-five years went by. Ethel married a Mr. Becker and raised a family. But she always had in the back of her mind those Klondike photos. Hegg had taken so many on a journey to the Klondike, with her father P. B. Anderson, during the height of the gold rush. Ethel was born in Bellingham, but spent her first six years in a cabin on Eldorado Creek with her parents - one of the few children of the gold rush. The photos must still exist somewhere, thought Ethel Anderson Becker. Then, like some sort of miracle, she discovered two thousand of Hegg's negatives at Webster and Stevens Photographers in Seattle. The firm had come into possession of the photos from Mrs. Hegg when she and her husband split up a long time ago. Ethel Anderson Becker bought them all...." (from Yukon Nuggets website). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Western Americana Ethel Anderson Becker E. A. Hegg Klondike Gold Rush
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Title: Klondike '98
Description: Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1958. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. A. Hegg. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of wear and tear, along with a large chip missing to the top spine end. "One day in 1921, young Ethel Anderson visited Eric Hegg's photography studio in Bellingham, Washington. She wanted his permission to try and gather together his photos of the Klondike that he had taken back in 1898-99." It can't be done", said the photographer. "They are scattered far and wide." Twenty-five years went by. Ethel married a Mr. Becker and raised a family. But she always had in the back of her mind those Klondike photos. Hegg had taken so many on a journey to the Klondike, with her father P. B. Anderson, during the height of the gold rush. Ethel was born in Bellingham, but spent her first six years in a cabin on Eldorado Creek with her parents - one of the few children of the gold rush. The photos must still exist somewhere, thought Ethel Anderson Becker. Then, like some sort of miracle, she discovered two thousand of Hegg's negatives at Webster and Stevens Photographers in Seattle. The firm had come into possession of the photos from Mrs. Hegg when she and her husband split up a long time ago. Ethel Anderson Becker bought them all...." (from Yukon Nuggets website). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Western Americana Ethel Anderson Becker E. A. Hegg Klondike Gold Rush
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 50733
- Book number: 50733
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