Camera Workers, 1858-1950


The British Columbia, Alaska and Yukon Photographic Directory, 1858-1950

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Wilson, Veazie[1, 2, 3]

Male 1865 - 1895  (30 years)

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  • Name Wilson, Veazie
    Birth 1865  Cherryfield, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Archives West: Veazie Wilson photographs, 1894-1895.
    Gender Male
    Where Active (Non-Specific Address) 1894  Dyea, AK, to mouth of Yukon River Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 4 Feb 1895  Seattle, WA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • His official cause of death was pneumonia which may have been caused by typhoid fever. Ancestry.com, Washington, U.S., Death Records, 1883-1960 and Archives West: Veazie Wilson photographs, 1894-1895.
    Person ID I801  Camera Workers | W, vol. 1, 1858-1900
    Last Modified 24 Dec 2025

  • Notes 
    • STATUS: Amateur.
    • BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: The first illustrated account by a photographer, Wilson's posthumous Guide to the Yukon Gold Fields (1895a) contains a "Memoir" by J.O. Hestwood, Seattle, dated 5 Jan 1895, in which is noted the author's death "just at the hour the book comes from the press." Two further guidebooks were also issued, one in 1895 and a revised version of the first account compiled and published by Esther Lyons who claimed to have accompanied Wilson's party.

  • Sources 
    1. [S501] Veazie Wilson, Wilson (1895a), (Seattle: The Calvert Co., 1895 and 1897).

    2. [S502] Veazie Wilson, Wilson (1895b), (Vancouver, BC: Thomson Stationery Co., 1895?).

    3. [S503] Veazie Wilson; Esther Lyons, comp., Wilson (1897), (Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1897).