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Clarke K. Kinsey (1877 - 1956) 
	
Clarke Kinsey was born in Grant Township, Nodaway, Missouri.((“Clarke Kinsey.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Kinsey)) Clarke was the youngest of six children born to Edmund and Louisa McBride Kinsey. The family purchased the first lots in Snoqualmie, Washington and is honoured in that town with a plaque.((“Clark Kinsey and the Documentation of the Pacific Northwest Logging Industry,” University of Washington digital collections description. 2018 website: https://content.lib.washington.edu/clarkkinseyweb/more-info.html.)) Clarke spent his childhood in Snoqualmie.((“Clarke Kinsey.” //Wikipedia,// 2019 website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Kinsey))\\ 
	
Brothers Darius and Clarke formed a partnership in photography, Kinsey & Kinsey, and operated a tent studio as they travelled around what is now the greater Seattle district. They photographed businesses and were the official photographers of the Snoqualmie, Lakeshore and Easter railroad. The partnership was short-lived, from 1895 to 1898, and Darius left to open his own studio in Woolley, about forty-five miles north of Snoqualmie.((Norm Bolotin, //Klondike Lost.// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1980: 3, 8.))\\
	
Clarke and his wife Mary left for the Klondike in 1898 with another brother, Clarence. Clarke and Clarence took photographs under the Kinsey & Kinsey banner.((Norm Bolotin, //Klondike Lost.// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1980: 8.)) They travelled and photographed the Chilkoot Pass in 1898 and settled near Dawson. They travelled to Nome when the news of that strike reached Dawson but quickly returned. The Kinsey & Kinsey studio operated in Grand Forks, on Bonanza Creek near Dawson, from 1902 to 1904. The Kinseys photographed the everyday life of people in Dawson, Grand Forks, and the creeks. Clarence mined a claim at Gold Hill with a crew of several men and Clarke spent more time taking pictures.((“Clark Kinsey and the Documentation of the Pacific Northwest Logging Industry,” University of Washington digital collections description. 2018 website: https://content.lib.washington.edu/clarkkinseyweb/more-info.html.))\\
	
The Kinseys worked about four years before they could give up their tent at Grand Forks and, in 1902, move their studio into a wood frame building. They were successful enough to hire Al Johnson as a photo assistant. The Kinseys lived on Gold Hill and built an apartment in the new studio located across from Walter Woodburn’s drug store on First Avenue, the main street. In 1903, Clarence married Agnes Fisher and they moved into the apartment. The studio had prosperous years from 1902 to 1904, and Clarence also supervised a crew working on their Gold Hill claim. Clarke was more interested in photography. Several members of the families came north to experience the Klondike. The population of Grand Forks dwindled and in 1906, the partnership was dissolved.((Norm Bolotin, //Klondike Lost.// Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1980: 30, 89, 94-95.))\\
	
Clarke and Mary moved back to Snoqualmie around 1906, and Clarke ran a successful contracting firm. He moved the firm to Seattle in 1908 and later to Vancouver, British Columbia. Clarke returned to photography in 1913. He and brother Darius worked as professional photographers in the wood products industry. Clarke worked mainly south of Seattle and Darius generally worked north of the city. Darius sent his negatives back to his wife in Seattle to process. Clarke and Mary and their three small children dragged their equipment on rough roads in a Model T touring car or walked miles on railway tracks. Clarke Kinsey produced over 10,000 images of logging camps, milling operations, men and equipment, over a period of thirty years. He documented the Spruce Division Camps in Washington and Oregon, and during the depression and he photographed the Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Washington, Oregon and California. Mary died in 1933, and Clarke remarried in 1941, but his second wife Minnie was not involved in his photography business. Clarke and Darius retired in 1945.((“Clark Kinsey and the Documentation of the Pacific Northwest Logging Industry,” University of Washington digital collections description. 2018 website: https://content.lib.washington.edu/clarkkinseyweb/more-info.html.))\\
	
The Yukon Archives holds 297 prints taken by Kinsey and Kinsey just after the gold rush. The Dawson Museum holds sixty-eight prints.