Barley, Harry C.^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

• Name	Barley, Harry C.
  	VARIANT NAME: Barley, Harrie C.
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	1901-19--	Whitehorse, YT
  	Address: Whitehorse, YT Canada
  Business Address/Year	1898-1899	Skagway, AK
  	Address: Fourth Ave. between Broadway & Spring Sts. Skagway, AK USA
  Business Address/Year	ca. Jun 1899 06-1901	Skagway, AK
  	Address: Broadway & Fourth Ave. corner Skagway, AK USA
  Association	Doody, Jeremiah D. (Relationship: Employer)
  Person ID	I359	Camera Workers | B, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2017

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Commercial. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Official photographer to the White Pass and Yukon Railway (1898-1900) over its 110 mile line from Skagway to Whitehorse, he had an advantage similar to some of his contemporaries a decade earlier whom the Canadian Pacific Railway commissioned to ride the rails and in some cases even outfitted the photographer with a special photographic darkroom car. The Whitehorse branch studio was overseen by Jerry Doody. Minter, a WP and YR executive, recounted in his history that Barley was not particularly liked by the construction crews because he took dangerous risks and injured himself at least once by getting too close to a blasting site, promising that he would "stuff the echo" if the contractor put him close enough to the blast (p.223). Barley photographed in the Atlin area during the gold rush there in 1899-1900. IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface usually titled, sometimes dated and signed "H.C. Barley [place]" or "H.C. Barley".

  
  

• Sources

  [S46] COLLECTION: BVIPA. [S174] COLLECTION: YWA. [S616] Minter (1987), Roy Minter, (Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 1987). [S301] Grainger (1992), John H. Grainger, (Ketchikan, AK: Tongass Publishing Co., 1992). [S268] Dobrowolsky and Ingram (1994), Helene Dobrowolsky and Rob Ingram, (Whitehorse, Yukon: Lost Moose Publishing, 1994). [S637] Grainger Yukon Postcard Checklist, John H. Grainger, (n.d.).