Hitchcock, Mary Evelyn^{[1, 2]}

• Name	Hitchcock, Mary Evelyn
  Gender	Female
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	Jun-Sep 1898	Alaska-Yukon
  	Visit
  Person ID	I202	Camera Workers | H, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2017

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Amateur (visit). BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Described by Frances Backhouse as "in her mid-forties, ... the daughter of a prominent Virginia family and the widow of a senior naval officer...." , Mary travelled to the Klondike as a tourist at the height of the gold rush with her friend Edith Van Buren. The two women departed San Francisco on 12 Jun 1898 aboard the St. Paul. They disembarked in St. Michael, Alaska, and travelled up the Yukon River on the Leah on 7 Jul. They arrived in Dawson 20 days later and after rounds of social events they departed the city on 23 Sep. Their return route took them through British Columbia and a hike over the White Pass back to Skagway, AK. In addition to purchasing souvenir views to illustrate Hitchcock's book, their photographic efforts are described in her travel account Two Women in the Klondike (1899).

  
  

• Sources

  [S421] Mary E. Hitchcock, Hitchcock (1899), (New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899). [S188] Backhouse, Frances, Backhouse (1995), (Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1995).