Searching for the dead after snowslide of April 3 1898 Dyea Trail Alaska – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Searching for the dead after snowslide of April 3 1898 Dyea Trail Alaska, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Searching for the dead after snowslide of April 3 1898 Dyea Trail Alaska
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Few stereoviews show the Chilkoot route as directly as this one, which records the search for victims of the snowslide that struck the Dyea Trail on April 3, 1898. The avalanche buried a crowded line of prospectors climbing toward Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike gold rush, killing dozens and marking one of the worst disasters of that rush. Stereo cards like this were sold to a public eager for images of the far north, so the scene reached viewers far from Alaska as a stark record of what the journey could cost.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | 36249 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by B.L. Singley. No. 9203. · War Photograph and Exhibition Company publisher. |
| Subjects | Rescue work--Alaska--Dyea--1890-1900. Avalanches--Alaska--1890-1900. Snow--Alaska--Dyea--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269950 |
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