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Claude standing near YCGC dredge #4 at the Arlington, summer 1939.
Claude standing near YCGC dredge #4 at the Arlington, summer 1939.
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“The Prospector. July 1938”
“The Prospector. July 1938”
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Claude loved to photograph isolated communities and wildlife, but he was equally fascinated by the workings of heavy machinery and the technology of his age. Near Dawson City he turned his lenses on hydraulic mining operations and on the giant dredges that worked the Klondike Valley.

Not all mining was done by dredges, and there were still

Jim “Spot Cash” Breaden and three other men standing by Breaden's caterpillar tractor with a sleigh hitched to it in Mayo. March 1934.
Jim “Spot Cash” Breaden and three other men standing by Breaden's caterpillar tractor with a sleigh hitched to it in Mayo. March 1934.
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prospectors working the creeks using more traditional methods. Claude made a conscious effort to document the prospectors and the processes they went through to extract gold from the creek beds.

In and near Mayo, he also spent many more hours recording men going about their working days, on ships, with heavy equipment or just using their own muscle power and ingenuity to gather ice for water and wood for heat.

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