Yukon who is who

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Anton Vogee (1867 - 1950)
	
Anton Vogee was born in Norway and raised near Andlesmith. He immigrated to the United States in 1888 and became a citizen in 1890. He was an artist who worked as a sign painter for a tobacco firm. He was also a photographer who used his photographs as proof for payment. He worked for Plato Advertising in San Francisco, and then opened a shop in Portland, Oregon in 1896. He left for the north when he heard about the Klondike strike and opened a shop in Dyea in 1897, and a paint store and in Skagway in 1898. In 1899, he moved to Atlin and set up a tent gallery with a branch in Pine City managed by A.A. Garrison. He arrived in Dawson in 1900 and prospected for gold for a year with little success. He opened Vogee’s Sign and Paper Hanging Shop near Princess and Second Avenue and later changed the name to Vogee’s Sign and Wall Paper Shop. He also sold photographs. He and Inga Amelia Brevik married in Dawson in 1901 and they had one son. The family moved to Malde, Norway in 1908. Vogee died in Vancouver, British Columbia.((Yukon Archives, Anton Vogee fonds, biographical sketch, Acc 82/271 and 82/523.)) The Vogee collection at the Yukon Archives includes photographs taken from 1897 to 1903. Vogee’s son Arthur inherited his glass plate negatives and donated them and copies of other photographs to the Archives in 1972.((Yukon Archives, Anton Vogee fonds, biographical sketch and archival description, Acc 82/271 and 82/523.))