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The Klondike: Summit Station - White Pass Railroad – Vintage Wall Art

The Klondike: Summit Station - White Pass Railroad, c1900. — historic photograph
The Klondike: Summit Station - White Pass Railroad, c1900.. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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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Step back in time with The Klondike: Summit Station - White Pass Railroad, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Klondike: Summit Station - White Pass Railroad

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Perched near the crest of White Pass, Summit Station sat on one of the most demanding stretches of the White Pass and Yukon Route, a railway built from Skagway, Alaska, toward the Yukon River during the Klondike gold rush of 1897 to 1899. Crews cut the line over steep grades and rugged granite, and the railroad carried prospectors, supplies and equipment inland along a route that had been brutal to travel on foot. Philadelphia photographer William H. Rau issued this stereograph as part of a numbered series of Klondike views, and its paired images convey the height and rough scale of the mountain country.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by William H. Rau. No. X2727. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; RR; Riverboats; Ph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 788 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158861

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