Gold Fever

In 1897, thousands of men and women from around the world rushed to Alaska to seek their bonanza in Yukon gold. Local Juneau photographers Lloyd Valentine Winter and Edwin Percy Pond were at the landing site of Dyea Flats to capture the arrival of the prospecters and their supplies before the “stampeders” began their dangerous trek north on the Chilkoot Trail to the Klondike goldfields in British Columbia, Canada. Courtesy Beinecke Library, Yale University