Eric A. Hegg was a Swedish-American photographer who portrayed the people in Skagway, Bennett and Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 to 1901. Hegg himself participated in prospecting expeditions with his brother and fellow Swedes while documenting the daily life and hardships of the gold diggers.
Hegg circa 1910 to 1920
Chilkoot Trail by Eric A. Hegg, 1898. Miners and prospectors at The Scales climbing the mountainside using the steps cut in the ice
Tlingit and Aleut baskets and beadwork ca. 1898 (Webber & Stevens reprint)
White Pass & Yukon Route ca. 1899
The Municipality and Borough of Skagway is a first-class borough in Alaska on the Alaska Panhandle. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,240, up from 968 in 2010. The population doubles in the summer tourist season in order to deal with more than 1,000,000 visitors each year. Incorporated as a borough on June 25, 2007, it was previously a city in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area. The most populated community is the census-designated place of Skagway.
Aerial view of Skagway in 2009
Skagway wharves and harbor ca. 1898 photo by Eric A. Hegg
Gold Rush-era advertisements made on one of the mountains forming the eastern wall of the valley
Gold Rush Cemetery
