Members of the Yukon Field Force, c1900. Transportation; Mining Photograph of two young women

Photograph of two young women standing under a leaf arch

probably at Halfway on the Yukon River

Caption: Boat deck Princess Alice

either two sisters or a mother and daughter

Inscription verso: Alvin Vance

Members of the Yukon Field Force, c1900. Transportation; Mining Photograph of two young womenFive military men, most likely the Yukon Field Force stand in fur anoraks and fur mukluks holding rifles in front of a long log building with the man to the left blowing a bugle. Possibly 1900. The Yukon Field force was drawn from Canada's permanent militia and sent by the federal government to assist the Northwest Mounted Police between 1898 to 1900. Inscription recto: Larss & Duclos Photos Dawson New Guard Present Arms, Dawson Y. T. Possibly 1900.