PCA 147: John Kill Photograph Collection, ca. 1898 Alaska State Library
Alaska State Library
Historical Collections
Kill, John
John Kill Photograph Collection, ca. 1898
PCA 147
23 photographs, b&w
ACQUISITION: This collection was donated by Merle Hitchcock of Yakima, Washington, April, 1976. John Kill was Mr. Hitchcock's great grandfather.
ACCESS: The photographs may be viewed however they may not be photocopied.
COPYRIGHT: Requests for permission to reproduce the photographs should be discussed with the Librarian.
PROCESSING: The majority of the photographs are on studio mounts. They are sleeved in Mylar. Notes (by donor?) are included on some of the images.
Scope and Content Note
These studio-mounted photographs were taken during a cattle-drive from Skagway to Nome in 1898. John Kill and a crew drove supplies and cattle (sheep?) 1000 miles and sold the supplies and meat at John Kill’s Meat Market in Nome. Some of the views are by Skagway photographers Case & Draper and E.A. Hegg.
Inventory
1.Verso: Grandfather John Kill, Grandma Kate’s father [Portrait of John Kill]
2.Sheep at Juneau Alaska to be [slaughtered?] as needed. [Men standing near sheep corral at Juneau, Alaska]
3.Verso: On trail to Nome from Skaguay Alaska. Log on sleds are to be sawed to make boat or barge. About 1897 on gold rush days.
4.[Man on sled pulled by two (St. Bernard?) dogs]
5.Verso: Sawing lumber to build barge to go down river to Nome. John Kill and crew.
6.Verso: Dawson City, Alaska [Man in furs posing with (St. Bernard) dog in snow.]
7.[Man in furs posing with (St. Bernard) dog in snow. Same location as #6]
8.[Wall tent set up in camp at Juneau]
9.[Mining structure above waterfall]
10.Schooner Jassce ....Nome. Nov. 4th 1899 [Men aboard ice covered schooner]
11.Great grandfather John Kill and wife Louise [at Nome City Meat Market]
12.Driving in Nome Alaska January 27th 1900. [4 people in furs seated in horse-drawn sleigh]
13.General view of Muir Glacier, Alaska. Winter & Pond, 1896.
14.[Steamer Indianapolis of Puget Sound Navigation Co.] Photo by John C. Hemment, NY
15.[Three men driving herd of sheep onto a fenced in barge]
16.Verso: Leaving Skaguay on trip to Nome, about 1000 miles overland. Case & Draper, Skaguay, Alaska. [Men with horses and ox-drawn sleds in snow] (c.2) Dad Kill & crew on the Skagway Trail, 1897, Alaska. Case & Draper.
17Verso (c.2): Hauling over the White Pass, April 2 (?), 1899 [John Kill, center, Jack McCarty, right, unidentified third man with ox-drawn sled, The Dalton Transportation Co.] [photo by] H.J. Goetzman, Skagway, Alaska Territory.
18.[Men standing outside businesses along snow-covered street, Nome.]
19.Five Finger Rapids. E.A. Hegg, 1898.
20.White Horse Rapids. E.A. Hegg, 1898. Dad Kill & crew on Whitehorse Rapids & barge. My Grand Dad Merle Hitchcock.
21.Str. Kalamazoo wrecked on the Thirty Mile River 1898. E.A. Hegg (#721)
22.Verso: John Kill’s Meat Market at Nome Alaska. Cattle were driven overland 1000 miles to Nome Alaska pulling sleds and packing supplies which were sold at Nome. Merle Hitchcock. Skagway to Nome by trail.
23.Windy Arm N.W.T. [Northwest Territories] 1898. E.A. Hegg (#703). [Men pulling flat-bottomed boat on shore.]
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