Mary’s Hotel No. 20 Below on Bonanza Creek, c1898.
Black and white view of a small log structure with a sod roof. Various signs are visible around the structure, including: Mary’s 35 cent Coffee House and Donghnuts & Coffee 25 cents, coffee & pie 25 cents, pork and beans 25 cents. Five men flank one woman – likely the owner of the hotel.
Inscription recto: Mary’s Hotel No. 20 Below on Bonanza // Hegg & Co.
Inscription verso: Mary’s Hotel on Bonanza Creek advertised three specials – doughnuts and coffee, coffee and pie, pork and beans – each 25 cents. Roadhouses sprang up along the Klondike creeks after Belinda Mulrooney opened the first one at Grand Forks in the fall of ’98. (Public Archives of Canada Photo).
