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.
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.
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Photo lot 162, Alice Rollins Crane photograph collection relating to the Yukon, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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.
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.
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.