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- STATUS: Commercial.
- BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: He is believed to have reached the Yukon via the Chilkoot Trail in the winter 1897-1898 with his wife Mary W. and their daughter Miss Edith C. Goetzman. NWMP records at Chilkoot, however, record Goetzman, his wife and Miss Edith Goeztman of Buffalo, NY, entering the Yukon on 11 Jul 1899 via boats 382 and 383. It is possible they left the Klondike before the winter of 1898-1899 and returned the following summer. In 1901 he published a souvenir album of Klondike views. Goetzman returned to San Francisco in 1904 after selling his photographic business, including negatives, to J. Morte H. Craig. In the Clary Craig list his address in San Francisco is 10960 Howard St. as of 26 Sep 1905.
According to Grainger (1992), "over 400 negatives" were lost in Dawson from water damage during a fire in Apr 1907. The Arctic Studio reproduced some of his photographs as photo postcards.
- IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface usually titled, sometimes dated and signed "By Goetzman Dawson".
- REFERENCES: Polk 1903 Gazetteer Directory; Clary Craig Klondike PO List; Dawson Daily News, 1907 04 12/4; Cohen (1977); Berton (1983); Grainger (1992).
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