Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Mart Albert Howard
Papers and Photographs of the Klondike
1897-1915
Cage
63
Table of Contents
- Summary Information
- Biography/History
- Scope and Content
- Administrative Information
- Names and Subjects
- Other Finding Aids
- Detailed Description of Collection
- Series 1: Diaries, letters, papers, records, souvenirs, clippings
- Series 2: Photographs (Photoprints) of Klondike Gold Rush
- Series 3: Lantern Slides: Copy Negatives
- Series 4: Lantern Slides
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
- Creator
- Howard, Mart Albert
- Title
- Mart Albert Howard Papers and Photographs of the Klondike
- ID
- Cage 63
- Date [inclusive]
- 1897-1915
- Extent
- 7 containers., 3 linear feet of shelf space., 800 items.
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- Correspondence, diaries, financial and legal papers, photographs and lantern slides and other papers of Howard's experiences as a gold miner in the Klondike, 1898-1905.
Preferred Citation
[Item Description]. Cage 63, Mart Albert Howard Papers and Photographs of the Klondike . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
Mart A. Howard (1855-1926) was a businessman at Webster, Massachusetts in 1897 when news of the Klondike gold strikes reached the United States. He left from home in October of that year, taking a train to Portland, then on to Seattle where he outfitted for a trip to Alaska. Leaving Seattle in January 1898, he traveled north via coastal steamer to Dyea, then across Chilkoot Pass and along inland waterways to his eventual destination at Dawson, Yukon Territory. In the fall of the same year, he returned to Seattle and purchased a shipment of supplies, which he retailed in the Klondike the following spring. Using the profits of this mercantile venture, he became a mine operator, purchasing interests in various mines on the creeks north of Dawson. He returned briefly to Massachusetts in 1900 after which he took his third trip to the Klondike, this time accompanied by his wife and son. Howard remained in Dawson until 1905, after which he returned to Massachusetts permanently. In later years he became a public lecturer on the Klondike gold rush.
Scope and Content
The papers of Mart Albert Howard, 1855-1926, consists of the correspondence, diaries, bills and receipts, legal documents and photographs which Howard, a Webster, Massachusetts, businessman, retained from his experience as a gold miner in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. Approximately two thirds of the collection are photographs taken by Howard or purchased from other Alaskan and Canadian photographers. Most photographs are glass-mounted transparencies.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research use.
Custodial History
Mart Howard's son Louis, who was 14 at the time of his trip to the Klondike and who was later Dean Of Mining at Washington State University, saved his father's papers until his own death in 1944. His widow then preserved the papers until she deposited then with the WSU Library in 1958.
Acquisition Information
The Howard Papers were acquired by the Washington State University Library in 1958 from Howard's daughter in law, Mrs. Louis O. Howard.
Digital Archival Object
Business card from Mr. Howard
Names and Subjects
Geographic Name(s)
- Alaska--Pictorial works
- Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries -- Pictorial works
Personal Name(s)
Creator(s) :
- Howard, Mart Albert, 1855-1926 --Archives
Subject(s)
- Mines and mineral resources--Yukon Territory--History--Sources
- Steamboats -- Photographs
- Photographs
- Alaska
- Mines and Mineral Resources
Other Finding Aids
A lengthy description of the papers in this collection may be found in Mary W. Avery, The Mart A. Howard Klondike Collection, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 50 (1959) 53-62.
Detailed Description of Collection
Series 1: Diaries, letters, papers, records, souvenirs, clippings |
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box | folder | |||
Diaries of Mart Howard 1897-1900 4 items. |
1 | 1 | ||
Letters of Mart Howard to wife and son in Webster, Mass. 1897-1905 120 items. |
1 | 2-3 | ||
Letters received by Mart Howard on business matters 1902-1913 30 items. |
1 | 4 | ||
Invoices and account book for purchases of supplies from Seattle and Klondike firms 1897-1905 50 items. |
1 | 5 | ||
Financial records of mining operations including profit and loss statement, "balance sheets" time books 1898-1905 40 items. |
1 | 6 | ||
Contracts, license, writs, deeds and other legal documents (included is 1860 permit to drive cattle through Dudley, Mass. 1898-1905 25 items. |
1 | 7 | ||
Souvenirs and mementos of southeast Alaska, Klondike region, including theater bills, boat menus and letterheads 1897-1905 20 items: 5x8 postcards |
2 | 8 | ||
General information regarding the territory of Alaska. Interior Dept. 1914 |
2 | 9 | ||
Report on reduction of area of homesteads in Alaska to 160 acres, Interior Dept. 1915 |
2 | 9 | ||
Mounted Newspaper clippings, re: Mart Howard; trial of George O'Brien at Dawson, Y.T. 1899-1905 40 items. |
2 | 10 | ||
Material for lectures on Klondike by Mart Howard 1910 25 items. |
2 | 11 | ||
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Series 2: Photographs (Photoprints) of Klondike Gold Rush |
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box | ||||
1. Panorama of Fairbanks June 13, 1905 |
Oversize | |||
box | folder | |||
2-4. Dawson, Y.T. 70-0200 1901 |
2 | 12 | ||
5. Episcopal Church and Hospital, Fairbanks |
2 | 12 | ||
6. Footbridge, Fairbanks |
2 | 12 | ||
7. Roll Call at the "N.C.C. Store" Fairbanks (liquor Wholesale) April 9, 1905 |
2 | 12 | ||
8. (Log) Jam formed above Cushman St. Bridge, Fairbanks July 1, 1905 |
2 | 12 | ||
9. Pack Train Arriving with Gold Dust, Washington and Alaska Bank, Fairbanks. |
2 | 12 | ||
10. Removing Jam from above Cushman St. Bridge |
2 | 12 | ||
11. Removing Jam from above Cushman St. Bridge. |
2 | 12 | ||
12. Below Bonanza (diggings) of Howard, Magaw and Collins |
2 | 12 | ||
13. Sluicing on Checaco Hill May 11, 1901 |
2 | 12 | ||
14. Below Bonanza, Howard, Magaw, and Collins Diggings |
2 | 12 | ||
15. Below Bonanza, Howard, Magaw, and Collins |
2 | 12 | ||
16. Panorama of Dawson City |
2 | 12 | ||
17. No. 4 El Dorado, looking up Gold Hill |
2 | 12 | ||
18. No. 6 Below on Bonanza |
2 | 12 | ||
19. Midnight Scenic of Dawson June 21, 1899 |
2 | 12 | ||
20. Hoisting Gold 1000 ft. to surface-winching machinery. |
2 | 12 | ||
21. Group of men on porch of building |
2 | 12 | ||
22. Stores in Fairbanks (with M.A. Howard in scene) |
2 | 12 | ||
23. Top of tramway or ore chute |
2 | 12 | ||
24. Our Klondike home July 12, 1901 |
2 | 12 | ||
25. T.M. RR Train at the Junction between Fairbanks and Chema |
2 | 12 | ||
26. Seattle waterfront March 4, 1901 |
2 | 12 | ||
27. 1000 Ft. Underground Cripple Creek, Colorado |
2 | 12 | ||
28. Mining Gold in Cripple Creek District |
2 | 12 | ||
29. The Elkton Mine, Cripple Creek 1908 |
2 | 12 | ||
30. National Hotel, Cripple Creek |
2 | 12 | ||
31. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek |
2 | 12 | ||
32. Mary McKinney Mine Cripple Creek District |
2 | 12 | ||
33. Portland Mine |
2 | 12 | ||
34. Economic Mill, Cripple Creek District |
2 | 12 | ||
35. Victor, Colorado |
2 | 12 | ||
36. The Center of the Great Mining District, Cripple Creek Colorado. |
2 | 12 | ||
37. Adams Gulch |
2 | 12 | ||
38. The Portland, Colorado’s Greatest Gold Mine |
2 | 12 | ||
39. The Center of Cripple Creek Mining District |
2 | 12 | ||
40. (Old Dominion?) Alaska or Yukon Mine Head, Sluice Box |
2 | 12 | ||
41. Below Bonanza (Howard, Magaw, and Collins) |
2 | 12 | ||
42. Ice in Yukon River at Dawson May 19, 1901 |
2 | 12 | ||
43. Ice Cakes at Forty-Mile, Yukon Territory, 15 feet thick May 19, 1901 |
2 | 12 | ||
44. Log Jam-Fairbanks |
2 | 12 | ||
45. Mart Howard en route to Klondike Gold Fields |
2 | 12 | ||
46. Mart Howard en route to Klondike Gold Fields (Chilkoot Pass) |
2 | 12 | ||
47. Mart Howard en route to Klondike Gold Fields |
2 | 12 | ||
48. Flood at Fairbanks July 6, 1908 |
2 | 12 | ||
49. No. 7 Below Bonanza—(Sluice Box and people) |
2 | 12 | ||
50. Below Bonanza, Howard, Magaw and Collins |
2 | 12 | ||
51. Howard, Magaw and Collins Mine (?) |
2 | 12 | ||
52. El Dorado |
2 | 12 | ||
53. Midnight Street Scene—Dawson |
2 | 12 | ||
54. Mining Scene on (Gold Sun?) |
2 | 12 | ||
55. Below Bonanza—Howard, Magaw, and Collins Mine |
2 | 12 | ||
56. Fairbanks, Alaska, from across Chena river. oversize 70-0203, 70-0204. June 13, 1905 |
2 | 12 | ||
57. Military Post |
2 | 12 | ||
58. General Store |
2 | 12 | ||
59. Steamer Clifford Siftor in Miles Canyon |
2 | 12 | ||
60. Enroute to Klondike Gold Fields (Chilkoot Pass) |
2 | 12 | ||
61. Shooting White Horse Rapids |
2 | 12 | ||
62. S.S. Cutch in Port at Skagway |
2 | 12 | ||
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Series 3: Lantern Slides: Copy Negatives |
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box | folder | |||
#3 Enlarged Map of Chilkoot, Chilkat, and White Pass Routes, 70- 0207 |
2 | 13 | ||
#4 Map of Klondike Mining District |
2 | 13 | ||
#6 Map of Klondike Gold Rush Area |
2 | 13 | ||
#10 Steamers Colombian and El Dorado racing 70-0208 |
2 | 13 | ||
#11 Steamer El Dorado in ice 70-0209 |
2 | 13 | ||
#13 Steamer Canadian 70-0210 |
2 | 13 | ||
#14 Steamer John C. Barr 70-0211 |
2 | 13 | ||
#15 Steamer White Horse 70-0212 |
2 | 13 | ||
#26 Steamer |
2 | 13 | ||
#98 Second Avenue, dawson 70-0214 |
2 | 13 | ||
#99 Front Street, Dawson 70-0215 July 5, 1901 |
2 | 13 | ||
#101 Street in Dawson 70-0216 |
2 | 13 | ||
#108 Administrative Building, Dawson 70-0217 |
2 | 13 | ||
#127 Canadian Bank of Commerce (Dawson?) 70-218 |
2 | 13 | ||
#143 (Front Street, Dawson?) Crowd scene 70-219 |
2 | 13 | ||
#144 (Front Street, Dawson?) Crowd scene 70-220 |
2 | 13 | ||
#185 Rocker Box 70-222 |
2 | 13 | ||
#309 Scow dealers 70-0233 |
2 | 13 | ||
#313 A Yukon stove 70-224 |
2 | 13 | ||
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Series 4: Lantern Slides |
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Maps |
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box | slide | |||
Northwest North America |
3 | 1-2 | ||
Chilkoot, Chilkat and White Pass Routes |
3 | 3 | ||
Klondike Mining District |
3 | 4-5 | ||
Klondike Gold Rush Area |
3 | 6 | ||
Utah, Colorado Area |
3 | 7 | ||
Transport |
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Steamboats |
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box | slide | |||
Victorian |
3 | 8-9 | ||
Colombian and Eldorado racing |
3 | 10 | ||
Eldorado in ice |
3 | 11 | ||
Canadian |
3 | 12-13 | ||
John C. Barr at Hootalinqua, Y.T. |
3 | 14 | ||
White Horse |
3 | 15 | ||
Cutch in ice |
3 | 16 | ||
Susie |
3 | 17 | ||
Dolphin |
3 | 18 | ||
Alki |
3 | 19 | ||
Wharves |
3 | 20-21 | ||
Steamboats and barges |
3 | 22 | ||
Coastal steamer in ice |
3 | 23 | ||
Crowd awaiting 2 steamers |
3 | 24 | ||
(Steamboats) in winter quarters |
3 | 25 | ||
Steamers |
3 | 26-27 | ||
Roping a steamer through 5-finger rapids |
3 | 28 | ||
Miners leaving Seattle on Ohio |
3 | 29 | ||
On board steamer to Alaska |
3 | 30-32 | ||
Boats |
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box | slide | |||
Boat landing at Dawson, Y.T. |
3 | 33 | ||
Small Boats, some in sails |
3 | 34 | ||
Canoes |
3 | 35 | ||
Railroads |
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box | slide | |||
Train in deep snow |
3 | 36 | ||
Locomotive with Snowplow |
3 | 37 | ||
TMRR train |
3 | 38 | ||
Track, trestlings, grades, bridges |
3 | 39-43 | ||
Wagons |
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box | slide | |||
Teams and freight wagons |
3 | 44-47 | ||
Sleds |
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box | slide | |||
Dog teams and sleds |
3 | 48-52 | ||
Horse drawn sleds |
3 | 53-59 | ||
Hand sled |
3 | 60 | ||
Trails, Packing-In |
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box | slide | |||
Trail Depot |
3 | 61 | ||
Packing over Chilkoot Pass |
3 | 62-65 | ||
Trails |
3 | 66-71 | ||
Pack Animals |
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box | slide | |||
Pack Mules |
3 | 72 | ||
Pack Train with Shipment of gold |
3 | 73 | ||
Cities, Settlements |
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Panoramas |
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box | slide | |||
Cordova |
4 | 74 | ||
Dyea |
4 | 75 | ||
Fairbanks |
4 | 76-77 | ||
Forty-Mile |
4 | 78 | ||
Grand Forks of Bonanza and Eldorado |
4 | 79-80 | ||
Juneau |
4 | 81 | ||
Ketchikan |
4 | 82 | ||
Log Cabin, B.C. |
4 | 83 | ||
Moosehide, Y.T. |
4 | 84 | ||
Port Townsend, WA |
4 | 85 | ||
Seattle |
4 | 86 | ||
Skagway |
4 | 87 | ||
Stewart, Y.T. |
4 | 88 | ||
Vancouver, B.C. |
4 | 89 | ||
Victoria, B.C. |
4 | 90 | ||
Wrangel |
4 | 91 | ||
Unidentified cities |
4 | 92-97 | ||
Streets |
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box | slide | |||
Dawson, Y.T. |
4 | 98-101 | ||
Skagway |
4 | 102-103 | ||
Sitka |
4 | 104 | ||
Flooded village |
4 | 105 | ||
Unidentified |
4 | 106 | ||
Buildings |
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box | slide | |||
Administrative Building, Dawson |
4 | 107-108 | ||
Fire Station, Dawson |
4 | 109 | ||
Church and Hospital |
4 | 110-111 | ||
Parliament, Victoria |
4 | 112 | ||
Parliament, Ottawa |
4 | 113 | ||
Empress Hotel, Victoria |
4 | 114 | ||
San Francisco Post Office |
4 | 115 | ||
GAR post, Worcester, Mass. |
4 | 116 | ||
The Royal Fuel Factory |
4 | 117 | ||
Fort Selkirk buildings |
4 | 118 | ||
White Horse Depot (?) |
4 | 119 | ||
Stores |
4 | 120 | ||
Canadian Pacific RR Offices, Victoria |
4 | 121 | ||
Canadian Development Company Trading Post |
4 | 122 | ||
Nugget Lunch House |
4 | 123 | ||
Interior of Russian Orthodox Church |
4 | 124 | ||
Cabin Fever |
4 | 125 | ||
Canneries at Petersburg, Alaska |
4 | 126 | ||
Canadian Bank of Commerce |
4 | 127 | ||
Unidentified public buildings and dwellings |
4 | 128-132 | ||
Encampments on Lakes Bennett and Lindeman |
4 | 133-135 | ||
Camps |
4 | 136-140 | ||
Tennis Courts at Valdez |
4 | 141 | ||
Encampment and City Scenes |
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box | slide | |||
Scenes around Dawson |
5 | 142-144 | ||
Crowds in Streets |
5 | 145-147 | ||
Log Jam behind footbridge in Fairbanks |
5 | 148-150 | ||
Mining |
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Panoramas |
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box | slide | |||
Adams Gulch |
5 | 151-152 | ||
Bonanza |
5 | 153-157 | ||
Chechaco Hill |
5 | 158-159 | ||
Eldorado |
5 | 160-161 | ||
Unidentified |
5 | 162-168 | ||
Dredging |
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box | slide | |||
On Bonanza |
5 | 169-171 | ||
On Lower Hunker Creek |
5 | 172 | ||
On Klondike River |
5 | 173-174 | ||
Tramway |
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box | slide | |||
The Fassbender and May Tramway |
5 | 175-180 | ||
The Fassbender and May Tramway |
6 | 181-183 | ||
Hand Tools and Simple Mining Operations |
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box | slide | |||
Group with rocker and pans |
6 | 184 | ||
Rockers |
6 | 185-188 | ||
A Long Tom |
6 | 189 | ||
Panning |
6 | 190 | ||
Hand winches or windlasses |
6 | 191-193 | ||
Hydraulic mining |
6 | 194-195 | ||
Sluices |
6 | 196-202 | ||
Mine Interiors |
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box | slide | |||
Cage |
6 | 203 | ||
Driving steam points |
6 | 204 | ||
Digging by Hand |
6 | 205 | ||
Timberwork |
6 | 206-207 | ||
Steam Equipment |
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box | slide | |||
Steam pipes |
6 | 208-210 | ||
Steam hoists at mine heads |
6 | 211-215 | ||
Ore Cars |
6 | 216-218 | ||
Ore Stackers |
6 | 219-220 | ||
Miscellaneous |
6 | 221-225 | ||
Assay Labs |
6 | 226-227 | ||
Surface Mining, probably in Southwest United States |
6 | 228-239 | ||
Landscapes |
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box | slide | |||
Rivers or Inlets |
7 | 240-251 | ||
5-Finger Rapids |
7 | 252-254 | ||
Glaciers |
7 | 255-256 | ||
Waterfalls |
7 | 257-259 | ||
Forest |
7 | 260-261 | ||
Desert |
7 | 262-263 | ||
Gold Hill |
7 | 264 | ||
Portraits |
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Individual and dual |
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box | slide | |||
Robert Henderson |
7 | 265 | ||
George Carmack |
7 | 266 | ||
Unidentified, including miners, Indians, laborers |
7 | 267-278 | ||
Groups |
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box | slide | |||
Violet Basketball Team |
7 | 279 | ||
Group at Rapids |
7 | 280 | ||
Midnight Dome June 21 |
7 | 281 | ||
School Children |
7 | 282 | ||
Border Officials |
7 | 283 | ||
Groups and crowds |
7 | 284-291 | ||
Novelty Portraits, including women panning, miner doing laundry, etc. |
7 | 292-295 | ||
Miscellaneous |
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box | slide | |||
Building a road |
7 | 296 | ||
Totem Poles |
7 | 297 | ||
Shooting a rapid |
7 | 298 | ||
Firewood pile |
7 | 299 | ||
On a sandbar |
7 | 300 | ||
Log Pile |
7 | 301 | ||
A saw pit |
7 | 302 | ||
Color photos of vegetation, mostly flowers |
7 | 303-306 | ||
1/2 Million Dollars worth of gold |
7 | 307 | ||
A typical Malumute dog |
7 | 308 | ||
Scow dealers (peddlers) |
7 | 309 | ||
Milk Stand |
7 | 310 | ||
Milk Cows |
7 | 311 | ||
Shipment of Gold |
7 | 312 | ||
A Yukon Stove |
7 | 313 | ||
25,000 Salmon at Anacortes, WA |
7 | 314 | ||
Ice Cakes from Yukon River |
7 | 315 | ||
United States Flag |
7 | 316 | ||
United States and Imperial Flags |
7 | 317 | ||
Machinery Fairbanks, Morse, and Company stamp and amalgamation mill |
7 | 318-326 | ||
Steel Crystallography |
7 | 327-366 | ||
X-Ray of a key and coin |
7 | 367 | ||
box | ||||
Newspapers: Dawson, Yukon Territory; Skagway, Alaska. 1899-1905 7 items. |
Oversize | |||
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