Bound for the Klondike Gold Fields, Chilcoot Pass, Alaska

Large group of prospectors on mountain path; restaurant and people with supplies in foregrd.

Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley (Keystone View Co.).

No. 9191.

The Keystone View Company produced more than 100 stereographs of the Gold Rush. The view "Bound for the Klondike Gold Fields" (several slightly different views with this title exist) inspired Charlie Chaplin's motion picture "The Gold Rush," produced in 1923. After Chaplin saw the stereoviews while visiting Douglas Fairbanks at his home "Pickfair," he used the stereos as source material for the film. He recalled printed captions on the backs of the stereos that described the trials and hardships endured. Chaplin opens the film with a Chilkoot Pass scene.

Caption card tracings: Restaurants, Lunch Rooms, Etc. Alaska Chilcoot Pass 1898; Transportation 1898; Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory Travel to Chilcoot Pass 1898; Alaska Chilcoot Pass 1898; Photog. I.; Geogr; Shelf.

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