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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATIONS; FIVE (5) USGS Water Supply papers bound together, HARDCOVER; ex-library; chips on lower corner of a couple of the title pages; light creasing of corners of leaves; a couple of tears on fore-edge of one original wrap; o/w all publications in good condition. Book.

1901. (Oblong 8vo) Near fine. 23pp. 20 illustrations. Clean bright copy. Photographs taken by the well known photographer during a 2000 mile trip from Edmonton to the mouth of the MacKenzie River. Cover title "The Far North". Not to be confused with a somewhat similar publication from 1902. Not in Peel. Not in Arctic Bibliography.

Mounted Photograph. Zustand: Very Good Plus. A circa 1901 photo of an early expedition into the northern climes of Alberta via small river boats on the Slave River, running from Athabasca Lake to Great Slave Lake in the NWT. A clear and finely toned image, titled in the negative "368 The Cause of the 1st. Portage Slave River Photo by C.W. Mathers. Edmonton. Alta.", measuring 7.25 x 9.5 inches wide, mounted onto the photographer's charcoal gray, beveled edge board w. his "Mathers, Edmonton, N.W.T." stamped at lower left corner. Mount w. some chips from edges, verso w. a few light scratches and pencil inscription "Charles Mathers photog. active 1894-1905", photo is fine, and shows a gentleman resting near the top of the falls with their boats beached in the near distance. "C.W. Mathers began his photographic career with the Edmonton branch studio of the Calgary photographic partnership of Boorne and May. According to photohistorian Brock Silversides, Mathers was Edmonton's only photographer for several years, including the first two years of the Klondike Gold Rush. Mathers never ventured beyond Athabasca Landing, about 100 miles north of Edmonton, during those two crucial years. He photographed many Klondikers, including the first woman to leave Edmonton for the Yukon. In 1901, three years after photographing stampeders departing by boat from Athabasca Landing, Mathers made his own epic journey of discovery along the same rivers followed by some of the Edmonton goldseekers." Camera Workers 1858-1950.

oblong 4to. [ff. 27]. 27 mounted photographic illus. (albertypes). wrs., mounted albertype on upper wr., corded tie (wrs. rubbed, corners or wrs. curled, small stain on upper wr., some leaves sprung). C.W. Mathers began his photographic career with the Edmonton branch studio of the Calgary photographic partnership of Boorne & May. According to Alberta photohistorian Brock Silversides, Mathers was Edmonton's only photographer for several years, including the first two years of the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1901 he travelled with a Hudson's Bay Company trader to Fort MacPherson on the Peel River, N.W.T., the first trading post north of the Arctic circle, and was able to take the first professional photographs of Inuit in the region. Mathers sold his business in 1904 and moved to Vancouver, B.C. Included here are albertypes of scenery around Fort McPherson on Peel River and Fort Good Hope on the Mackenzie River, Inuit kayaking and dogsledding, HBC Steamer Wrigley on the Mackenzie River, native Dogribs at Great Slave Lake, portaging and rapid-running, HBC Post Chippewyan on Lake Athabasca, the Athabasca River, &c.