Photographic Print
Object
Two sepia toned photographs pasted to a black background. There is no glass protecting these photos. There is a dark wooden frame surrounding the images. The backside of this picture frame is wooden with a wire strung across.
Image one shows a mountain and forest-scape from a distance and a collection of log cabins and wall tents. There is possibly a river or dirt road. On the left side of the mountain you can see where a train, the White Pass and Yukon Route, has its tracks carved into the mountain side. Inscription on the bottom written in white reads "White Pass City and Camp, From Tunnel Mountain, Sep 1898". To the left of this inscription is the number 65 written in white. To the right of the main inscription it says "H C Barley" written in white.
Image two shows a mud-flat with towering mountains in the background. The mud-flat is an area near Skagway, Alaska known as DYEA. There are dozens of structures lifted on stilts, seen on the mud-flats. There is an inscription on the bottom of the photo that reads, “Photo by Barley Skaguay”
https://yukonnuggets.com/stories/hc-barley-white-pass-photographer;What today looks like a pristine valley 12 miles up the South Klondike Highway was actually the site of a tent city during the gold rush. It was the last major stopping point before the ascent to the summit of the White Pass. The valley provided one of the first flat sections of trail where a stampeder could spread out and pitch a tent before heading up the Dead Horse Gulch. The town existed for a total of two years. It consisted mostly of tents and offered 17 saloons, one for each building.
https://www.nps.gov/klgo/learn/historyculture/white-pass-history.htm
