Camera Workers: The British Columbia, Alaska, Yukon Photographic
Directory, 1858-1950 - K - Volume 1 (1858-1900)
© 1999-2007 By
David Mattison
Updated: 2005.12.15.
NAME:
Keen, John Henry.
LIFE DATES: 1851 or 1852 __ __-1950 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Tunbridge Wells, England, UK.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Masset.
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1893.
STATUS:
Amateur.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: An Anglican missionary to this Haida
community in the Queen Charlotte Islands, he arrived at Masset from Moose Fort
in 1890 and remained there until 1898. Upon his return from furlough in England
he was stationed at Metlakatla in 1900.
COLLECTIONS: BCPM.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Blackman (1981-82):102 Collison (1915
reprint 1981) Letter, Church Missionary Society Archives, Keen's dated 1893 04
18.
NAME: Keir, Ernst
F.
LIFE DATES: 1878 __ __-1914 __ __.
BIRTHPLACE: Vernon County?,
WI.
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Juneau, AK Skagway, AK Chilkoot
Pass Trail Dawson, Yukon.
WORK INTERVAL: 1898 04-1899 06 21.
STATUS:
Amateur.
SUMMARY: He travelled to Dawson via the Chilkoot Pass. A diary
and 196 photos survive at the National Archives of Canada.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: OOA (photo accession 1974-118).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
Print surface signed " Keir" .
REFERENCES: Seifried (1984):#4573
Dobrowolsky (1995):145 (OOA photo no. C63157).
NAME: Kelly, M.F.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Union.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1895-1897.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: BVIPA has one photo captioned
" [#?] 100 Coke Ovens Under Construction Union Wharf, Kelly, Union, B.C."
COLLECTIONS: BVIPA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see above.
REFERENCES: BVIPA
photo no. HP064701 WIL97 (Union) Weekly News, 1895 12 17/1.
NAME: Kern, Peter E.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Skagway,
AK Valdez, AK.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: ca. 1907-1910.
STATUS: Photo postcard publisher.
SUMMARY: According to Grainger
(1992), he travelled from El Paso, Texas, to Skagway, Alaska, at the start of
the Klondike Gold Rush where he worked as a jeweler. He later opened a curio
store and returned to his home state in 1910. Grainger notes that some of his
photo postcard views are of the gold rush trail to Dawson.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: photo postcards.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Grainger (Directory Alaska Postcards, 1992).
NAME: Kerr, Byron N.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS-YEAR:
HOME ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1898.
STATUS:
Amateur?.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: BVAA has a photo of the Western Klondike
Outfitters, Cordova St., credited to him.
COLLECTIONS: BVAA.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: BVAA photo BUILDINGS P. 311/LGN 1021.
NAME: Kilburn, Benjamin
West.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE
ACTIVE: Alaska Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS-YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
1877-1909 (as B.W. Kilburn).
STATUS: Commercial (visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: Stereoscopic photographer and publisher, some of his views are
copyrighted 1899. His work is notable for misidentifying Dawson City as being
in Alaska even though the town is so far east of the boundary as to be
unmistakably Canadian.
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Waldsmith (1991).
NAME: Killam,
___________.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS:
SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
King, Howard H. see King, John Howard Havelock.
NAME: King, John Howard Havelock.
VARIANT:
King, Howard H.
LIFE DATES: 1873 08 31-1963 03 02.
BIRTHPLACE:
Enniskillen, Bruce County, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Vancouver.
WHERE
ACTIVE: Vancouver.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 610 Granville St./1899-1900+.
HOME ADDRESS/YEAR: 418 Cordova St./1900 410 Cordova St., No. 12/1900.
WORK INTERVAL: 1899-1900+.
STATUS: Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL
SUMMARY: He moved with his family to Walkerton, Ontario, in 1894 and learned
photography there from a Mr. Rawe about 1894. He then came to the West Coast
and was employed as a picture framer by S.J. Thompson. The List of Voters shows
him as photographer. He later ran his own studio, the King Photo Studio, until
1905, then worked in New Westminster and Nanaimo as a photographer. His sister
reported that " His first interest was in photography, and he took many
portraits and studies of Indians in all parts of Canada."
COLLECTIONS: see
Camera Workers, Part 2.
IDENTIFYING MARKS: see Camera Workers, Part 2.
REFERENCES: HEN99 HEN00 HEN02 HEN03 HEN04 HEV05 VOTERS LIST, 1900
Letter, Mrs. Cora Robertson (sister) to Mattison, 1977 11 15 BVIPA Visual
Records Photographer File.
NAME: Kinne, Albert Barnes.
VARIANT: Kinney, A.B.
LIFE DATES: 1853 06 01?-1925 08 __.
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH: Nome, AK.
WHERE ACTIVE: San Francisco, CA Nome, AK.
BUSINESS
ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL:
STATUS: Commercial (studio).
SUMMARY: He was a partner in Dobbs & Kinne around 1903. The negatives preserved by the University of Washington Libraries were salvaged in 1941 from Kinne's Nome home which his wife deserted after her husband's suicide.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UWL (negatives and prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Grainger
(Directory Alaska Postcards, 1992) University of Washington Libraries, Guide to the Albert B. Kinne Photographs, ca. 1903-1910 Guide to the Beverly B. Dobbs Photographs, ca. 1900-1912.
Kinsey,
Clarence see Kinsey & Kinsey.
Kinsey, Clark see Kinsey &
Kinsey.
NAME: Kinsey
& Kinsey.
NAME: Kinsey, Clarence.
LIFE DATES: 1872 __ __-1956 03
__.
BIRTHPLACE: Maryville, WV?.
PLACE OF DEATH: Seattle?, WA.
NAME: Kinsey, Clark K.
LIFE DATES: 1877 04 15-1956 11 29.
BIRTHPLACE:
Grant Township, Nodaway County, MO.
PLACE OF DEATH: Seattle, WA.
WHERE ACTIVE: Grand
Forks, Yukon.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR:
WORK INTERVAL: 1895-[1898]-
STATUS: Commercial.
SUMMARY: The brothers, siblings of Darius Kinsey of
Pacific Northwest (primarily Washington State) logging photography fame,
reached the Yukon in 1898. They settled at Grand Forks, south of Dawson City,
on Bonanza Creek and documented the town and surrounding gold fields
thoroughly. Both eventually returned to Washington State
Clark Kinsey, after a brief stint in the construction industry building roads and highways, returned to photography in 1913, specializing, like his older brother Darius, in documenting the logging industry, mainly in Washington State.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: UWL (negatives and prints).
IDENTIFYING MARKS: Print surface usually
captioned and marked " Kinsey & Kinsey" or " Kinsey & Kinsey Photo" . Some
prints numbered.
REFERENCES: Bolotin (1980) Bolotin (1987) University of Washington Libraries, Clark Kinsey Photographs Collection University of Washington Libraries (2004).
NAME: Kipling, Thomas.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE:
Victoria.
BUSINESS ADDRESS/YEAR: 51 St. Lawrence St./1892.
HOME
ADDRESS/YEAR: 11 Humboldt St./1893.
WORK INTERVAL: 1892-1893.
STATUS:
Commercial.
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING
MARKS:
REFERENCES: WIL92 WIL93 WIL94 WIL95 WIL97.
Kirke see
Wilse & Kirke.
NAME: Klondike Photo Co.
WHERE
ACTIVE: .
WORK INTERVAL: ca. 1898-1900.
STATUS: Studio.
SUMMARY:
A portrait of four brothers (?) with the oldest seated bears this studio's name
on the front bottom of the mount.
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS: Private.
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
NAME: Klotz, Otto Julius.
LIFE DATES: 1852
03 31-1923 12 28.
BIRTHPLACE: Preston, ON.
PLACE OF DEATH: Ottawa,
ON.
WHERE ACTIVE: Rocky Mountains Selkirk Mountains.
HOME
ADDRESS-YEAR: Ottawa, ON.
WORK INTERVAL: 1886.
STATUS: Institutional
(visit).
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: After studying medicine and engineering at
Toronto University, Klotz joined the Topographical Surveys Branch, Dominion
Dept. of the Interior (1879-1908). He surveyed along the Canadian Pacific
Railway line through the mountains to delimit the 10-mile wide Railway Belt
land grant. He was the first to determine the heights of principal mountain
peaks along the railway and named many of them. Klotz also worked on the Alaska
boundary survey in 1893-1894. While in London, England, in 1898 he discovered
an important cache of Foreign Office correspondence, much of which pertained to
the North American Boundary Commission, some of whose
Royal Engineer members were
photographers. Klotz was later director of the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa
(1917-). A photograph of the Glacier House under construction in 1886 was
published in Hart (1983).
COLLECTIONS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES: Klotz (1899 reprint, 1980) Who's Who in Canada (1927)
Lowther (1968): vol. 1 index entry for Klotz Encyclopedia Canadiana
(1970) Hart (1983):15.
Kreisser (Russian
ship's sailors) see
Anonymous (Russian
sailor[s]).
NAME:
Kreling, C.L.
LIFE DATES:
BIRTHPLACE:
PLACE OF DEATH:
WHERE ACTIVE: Dawson, Yukon.
WORK INTERVAL: 1897-1898.
STATUS:
Photojournalist.
SUMMARY: He worked for the San Francisco
Examiner-Journal and was in Dawson by early November 1897. His colleague
E. Hazard Wells describes him as an
" artist" . Kreling returned to Dyea. Two photographs credited to Kreling were
published in the San Francisco The Examiner on January 23, 1898 (p. 17
and 18).
COLLECTIONS/FORMATS:
IDENTIFYING MARKS:
REFERENCES:
Wells (1984) Letter, Michael Cirelli, 1996 01 25.