Alaska, Atlin and the Yukon

I’ve presented this booklet before from an edition on archive.org. Whoever scanned it for archive.org cut the cover image in half. I tried to restore it, with less-than-perfect success, then compounded the problem by putting the back cover on the front. Today, I’m rectifying these problems by posting one that I recently acquired.

Click image to download a 10.4-MB PDF of this 16-page booklet.

I had dated the archive.org one to 1923, but I have no idea where I got that since archive.org dated it to 1910. That’s obviously wrong because the booklet refers to 1918 in the past tense, but I can’t find any reason to pin it down to 1923. Tomorrow, I’ll post a different version that is clearly marked 1929, and to be conservative I am tentatively dating this one to 1928.

The above images — which, as I said, is on the back cover — is unsigned. Whoever did the artwork made the image with four colors: blue, green, orange, and black. I imagine it was done by an in-house artist who was aware of the extra expense of lithographs that were printed in anywhere from 7 to 14 colors.

As will be revealed if you download the PDF, the booklet is about 9″ high by 12″ wide but the above cover image is only 9″x8″, which is the common dimension for timetables and many booklets or brochures. They could be displayed unfolded in a rack with 8″ slots or folded in a rack with 4″ slots. This booklet would have to have one third folded to fit in an 8″ rack or be folded into thirds to fit into a 4″ rack. The third of a page not shown in the above image lists White Pass agents and other officials.


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