Wikimedia Commons photos from the 1890s

Arrival of the first passenger train of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad on the summit of White Pass, Alaska, February 20, 1899.

First train to Bennett at Log Cabin, B.C., July 6, 1899

Skagway, Alaska, 1899

Men with motorized sled leaving Bennett, British Columbia for Dawson, March 16, 1899.

Dogsled team belonging to Haywood & Oates, Dawson, Yukon Territory,1899.

Steamboat COLUMBIAN leaving Dawson on its first trip to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, 1899.

Boat navigating the Miles Canyon Rapids on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, 1899.

Steamboats COLUMBIAN (left), CANADIAN (center), and VICTORIAN (right), in port at Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1899.

Staff outside U.S. Assay Office, Seattle, circa 1899

Klondikers with packtrains heading over White Pass, Alaska, March 24, 1899.

First passenger train of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad to leave Bennett Lake, British Columbia, July 6, 1899.

Banquet at the U.S. Consul for the July 4th celebration, Dawson, Yukon Territory, 1899.

Front St., Dawson, Yukon Territory, June 1898.

Chilkoot Railroad and Transport Co., Canyon City, Chilkoot Trail, Alaska, April 22, 1899.

Men and supplies gathered around the Canadian custom house, Log Cabin, British Columbia, March 17, 1899.

Crowd of men and women waiting for mail at the Dawson post office, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.

Gold Hill mining operations from Adams Hill, August 1899

Man, boy, and dog outside the Slayden cabin, Adams Hill, 1899

First shipment of gold from Nome to Seattle, ca. 1899

Steamboats COLUMBIAN and ELDORADO starting from Dawson on a race to Whitehorse Rapids on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, July 4, 1899.

Dogteam in Front Street, Dawson, Yukon Territory, June 1899.

Crowd gathered outside the Skagway Post Office to receive mail, Alaska, ca. 1899.

Crowds gathering at the ruins of the Opera House on Front St. after a fire, Dawson, Yukon Territory, April 26, 1899

Captain Jack Crawford and group of people at social event, Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.

Frozen waterfalls in Box Canyon, White Pass Trail, Alaska, March 30, 1899.

Horse drawn cart hauling lumber stuck in mud on Front St., Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.

Front Street, Dawson, Yukon Territory, July 1899.

Four miners at entrance to Magaw and Andrews mine shaft, Cheechako Hill, 1899

Mining operation showing miners working, eating within view of cabins and flumes, Hunker Creek, 1899

Steamboat VICTORIAN leaving Dawson for White Horse, Yukon Territory, July 8, 1899.

Panoramic view of Front Street, Dawson, Yukon Territory, August 17, 1899.

Steamboat VICTORIAN departing for Whitehorse, probably from Dawson, Yukon Territory, July 8, 1899.

Gold miners with a rocker at work on Skookum Hill, Bonanza Creek, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.

Grace Julian Clarke scrapbook on George W. Julian and others, 1899-1920