Yukon who is who

Lloyd Valentine Winter (1866 – 1945)

Lloyd Winter was born in San Francisco to parents Robert and Josephine Winter. Winter arrived in Juneau in 1890 and later worked with photographer George M. Landerskin. They established the Landerkin and Winter studio that lasted until 1893 when Winter’s friend Percy Pond landed in Juneau. Pond bought out Landerkin in 1894 the studio became Winter and Pond.¹⁾

Winter could speak the Haida language and Winter and Pond were eventually adopted into a clan. They published a handful of books on Alaska and its people.²⁾ Winter followed the stampeders over the Chilkoot Pass in 1897/98 and shot images for the stereograph publisher Underwood & Underwood and the magazine Leslie's Weekly. Winter & Pond were named the official Alaska photographers for the Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909.³⁾ In 1934, Winter & Pond Co. published a commemorative album called Trail of 98 - Thirty-six Years Ago.

Between 1915 and 1925, Winter and Pond operated mining claims near Juneau. The partnership ended when Pond died in 1943. Before Winter died, he passed the photography company to Francis Harrison who operated the business until 1956.⁴⁾

The Alaska State Library holds 3,000 images dating from 1893 to 1943 in the Winter and Pond collection.⁵⁾ The earliest glass plate negatives are held by the Alaska State Library. A collection of 12 Winter & Pond photographs at the University of Washington includes photos of the Chilkoot Trail, Yukon mining life and Dawson, copyrighted in 1896 and 1897. The Yukon Archives has ten prints concentrating on the Chilkoot Trail in 1897. The collection at the University of Washington does not include any Yukon photos.