This album, comprised of 85 pages on which 248 photographs are mounted, centres mainly on a detailed look at Dawson City and a retrospective view of the buildings, streets and residences there. Owners of many houses are noted, as well as past owners. There are also mining scenes at different areas in the Klondike District, such as activities of the Yukon Gold Co. The album partly documents a visit by their Excellencies, Lord and Lady Byng, to the Yukon in August of 1922. Photos mostly by O.S. Finnie from 1922, but also a small amount of material by the following: E.O. Ellingson, E.J. Hamacher, K. Harris, W.E. Hunter and the Indian Affairs branch, from 1925 - 1928. Finally, there is a series accredited to "Yukon" that dates from 1898 - 1901. It is unknown where the "Yukon" photographs originate from, but they detail scenes from Whitehorse, Dawson City and Chilkoot Pass at the turn of the twentieth century.
The following places can be found in the album: Ketchikan, Alaska; Paku Glacier; Carcross, Yukon; Whitehorse, Yukon; Gold Bottom Creek; North Fork, Klondike; Yukon River; Eldorado; Dawson City, 1899; Chilcoot Pass, 1898; Bennett, B.C., 1898; summit of the White Pass; portion of King St., Dawson, 1922; houses on Princess St., Dawson, 1922; Miles Canyon; Five Finger Rapids; Stewart River; Dawson City, Yukon (majority of photos); Hunker Creek; Keno townsite; Yukon Gold Co., Keno Hill; Mayo; Dominion Creek, 1900; Whitehorse, 1900; Lake Kluane; Gold Hill; discovery spots (of gold) in Yukon; Native village, Alaska.
The following events can be found in the album: discovery on Bonanza; hydraulic sluicing on Gold Hill; O.S. Finnie holding gold brick; car stuck in mud on road between Mayo and Keno; mining on Adams Hill; Yukon Gold Co. activities; people waiting for the Byng's at White Pass Wharf, Aug. 2, 1922; O.S. Finnie with pan of gold; group with shot bear; underground mining work; people ascending Chilcoot Pass, May 1898; caribou swimming in Yukon River.
The following objects can be found in the album: bridges in Yukon (from wooden to steel); remains of buildings at Bennett; Skookum Jim's cabin; fox ranch; Anglican Mission school, Carcross; steamers (e.g. Princess Louise); totem; Dawson Charlie's cabin; government assay office, Whitehorse; Yukon Order of Old Pioneers cemetery; cabins; Holme Miller & Co. store; Sheriff Eilbeck's house, Dawson; government telegraph office; memorial, Insp. J.F. Fitzgerald, R.C.M.P.; Canadian Klondike Co. dredge; mastadon and mammoth bones; Yukon River steamboats; the old "Nugget Express"; roadhouses and dwellings, ca. 1900; gold commissioner's office, 1899; Klondike gold (close-up); the old Krilger cabin; Arthur Boyle's cabin, Dawson; houses of Dawson residents: Mr. Jeckells, Harry Jones, J.H. Homes, Justice Craig; the old Regina Hotel; Church of England hostel and church; R.C.M.P. barracks; Klondike Mine railway cars (disused); Dawson Athletic Association Building; Robert Service's cabin; post office; public school; thermometer showing 72 below zero; Gold Run Hotel; mining inspector's office, Dominion Creek, 1900; Hotel MacDonald; Northwest Mounted Police post; White Pass & Yukon Railway trains; Native camp; old Dawson buildings; abandoned cabins.
The following animals can be found in the album: cow with twin calves; caribou.
The following people can be found in the album: Lord and Lady Byng; portrait (sitter and photographer unknown); Kate Karmacks-Skookum (sister of Jim); McIvor, supervisor on Gold Hill; Natives; O.S. Finnie; R.L. Gillespie, mining recorder; J. Johnston, postmaster; John A. Craig; J. Deslaurier and family; Mr. McDougal; crew of Whitehorse, steamer; Mr. and Mrs. Livingston Werneckle; Captain Joliffe; reception committee to meet Byng's; gold commissioner's staff; gold prospector; R.C.M.P. officers; Dr. and Mrs. E.E. Montgomery; Miss Venita O. Consigny; Miss Beulah Sch??k; George Coffey; Mr. Burrell; Victor Grant; Tom Hinton; Dr. Gillis; Dr. Alfred Thompson; Frank Osborne and family, Dawson; Dr. Lapachelle and family; Mr. and Mrs. G.P. Mackenzie; George Black, M.P.; Captain Balfour; Major L.T. Burwash; Dr. Holliday; miners; Wilfred DeLarge and wife.
Print 1922-427 is missing "The remains of Bennett, August 1922".
