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"Buck" of The Call of the Wild. Owned by the Bond Brothers. Dawson, N.W.T

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Title: "Buck" of The Call of the Wild. Owned by the Bond Brothers. Dawson, N.W.T
Date Created and/or Issued: 1897
1898
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jack London Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Marshall Bond, Oliver H. R. La Farge, Lyman R. Cold, and Stanley Pearce sit with two dogs in front of log cabin in Dawson, Yukon. Dog on left with Marshall Bond is identified as Buck by "This is Buck x" at the top. Signature of Jack London at top of photo.
Title provided by cataloger. The dog was the inspiration for the character "Buck" in The Call of the Wild. Though note on back of photograph says Louis Bond is pictured, scholarly sources identify him as Marshall Bond. Verso of photo reads in Jack London's hand: "Dear Lurline: Louis Bond's dog taken in Dawson in 1897."
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 10 x 15 cm
Identifier: JLP 12
463140
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll7/id/13
Subject: Klondike River Valley (Yukon)--Gold discoveries
Log cabins
Dogs--fiction
Black-and-white photographs. (aat)
Place: Dawson (Yukon)
Source: Jack London Collection
Box 457, Photographs: Prints: A-H
Jack London Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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