H26.2349

Facsimile photograph of a log cabin in the Klondike (Alaska), showing Marshall Bond & his dog "Buck," hero of "The Call of the Wild." Also shows signature of Jack London, (which was signed 10 years after picture was taken.) Also in picture are Oliver H. F. La Farge, Lyman Colt & Stanley Pierce, ca. 1898. (Onfront of photo) "Buck" of "the Call of the Wild", owned by the Bond Brothers, Dawson, NW.T., May 21, 1908 - Jack London" Bibliography: The Beginnings of Oakland A.U.C. by Peter Thomas Conmy; Oakland Public Library, 1961 Jack London, famous writer, was born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876 but was raised in Oakland. Here he obtained his grammar and high school education and one year of college at the University of California in Berkeley. Although his writings reflect the background of the sea and the Orient, many of them have Oakland and its waterfront as their setting. He was influenced greatly as a youth by Ina Coolbrith, Librarian of the Oakland Public Library. He died on November 22, 1916.