George G. Cantwell
George G. Cantwell was originally from Puyallup, Washington. He was working in Juneau as a photographer before he arrived in Dawson in 1898. He worked briefly for Erik Hegg before going into a partnership with Atwood in 1899. He was a taxidermist as well as a photographer. He remained in Dawson until 1901 at the latest.1) Cantwell published The Klondike: A Souvenir, with the author's photo on page eleven. The album was produced for the meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and depicted Yukon mining in 1905.2)
Cantwell collected animal specimens for the US Biological Survey across the western United States from about 1918 to 1927. His field work is documented in the Division of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History.3) In 2019, the University of Washington had 121 photographic prints, twenty-two glass negatives, and nineteen nitrite negatives taken by Cantwell. Of special interest are some underground mining photos using the “flashlight process.” There is a personal photo album with thirty-eight loose photos of the Cantwell family and scenes of a 1901 Dawson to Pullyup trip. Selections from the collection can be viewed online.4)