Arthur C. Pillsbury Collection
See photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush, California, Oregon and Washington taken by Arthur C. Pillsbury (1870-1946) between about 1896 and 1900.
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Tagish Lake, Canada, ca. 1899
Tagish Lake is located on the border of British Columbia and Yukon.
Identifier: spl_ap_00159
Date: 1899?
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Nevada Falls in Yosemite, ca. 1897-1900
No caption is provided for the photograph but it appears to show El Capitan in Yosemite. Pillsbury had a lifelong interest in the park and established his own photograph studio there in 1897.
Identifier: spl_ap_00165
Date: 1897?; 1900?
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Sea Serpent and Grizzly totem poles outside Chief Shake's house in Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1899
The pole on the left is the ""Sea Serpent"" pole and the pole on the right is the ""Bear up Mountain"" pole.
Identifier: spl_ap_00075
Date: 1899?
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Boat at Calico Bluff, Alaska, ca. 1899
Calico Bluff is located on the Yukon River near Eagle, Alaska.
Identifier: spl_ap_00187
Date: 1899?
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Iris
Frank Asakichi Kunishige was born in Japan on June 5, 1878. He came to the United States via San Francisco in 1895. After graduating from the Illinois College of Photography, he opened a small photography studio in San Francisco. Kunishige moved to Seattle in 1917. In the same year, he married Gin Kunishige and began working in the studio of Edward S. Curtis where he became acquainted with Ella McBride who he worked for in later years. Kunishige was well known for his use of Pictorialism, a popular painterly style of photography. He developed his photographs on "textura tissue," a paper of his own creation, which allowed him to produce almost dreamlike prints. His work was featured nationally and internationally in exhibitions and publications such as Photo-Era and Seattle's Town Crier. In 1924, Kunishige became one of the founding members of the Seattle Camera Club, a group of local photographers including Kyo Koike, Yukio Morinaga, Iwao Matsushita and Fred Y. Ogasawara who gathered to share techniques and ideas, as well as their deep love of the medium. Although the group was initially solely Japanese, they soon welcomed more members including Ella McBride, their first female member. When World War II struck and the country's Japanese internment policy was put in place, Kunishige and his wife were forced to leave Seattle for Idaho where they were interned at the Minidoka camp. After their release, Kunishige spent two years working at a photography studio in Twin Falls, Idaho but eventually returned to Seattle due to his poor health. Frank Kunishige passed away on April 9, 1960.
Identifier: spl_art_367924_02
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Discovery City on Pine Creek, British Columbia, April 24, 1899
Discovery City was a short-lived settlement located halfway between Atlin and Surprise Lake. A gold rush began at Atlin in August 1898 and lasted through 1900.
Identifier: spl_ap_00050
Date: 1899-04-24
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Yosemite Valley, ca. 1897-1900
This image shows a view of Yosemite Valley from near the present-day location of the Wawona Tunnel viewpoint. Pillsbury had a lifelong interest in the park and established his own photograph studio there in 1897.
Identifier: spl_ap_00191
Date: 1897?; 1900?
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Beaver totem pole in front of home in Wrangell, Alaska, ca. 1899
Identifier: spl_ap_00074
Date: 1899?
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