Nome City, Alaska, 1899 – Vintage 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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Nome City, Alaska, 1899 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Nome City, Sept. 21, '99, a city two months old
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Nome City, Alaska, 1899
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Nome, on Alaska's Seward Peninsula, was a tent-and-frame boomtown in 1899, only a year and a half after gold was found in the sands of Anvil Creek in late 1898. Thousands of prospectors arrived by steamship from Seattle and San Francisco, and the beach along Norton Sound was crowded with lighters unloading supplies, since the town had no harbor and freight had to be carried ashore by hand or by small boats. Miners worked the gold-bearing beach gravels with sluices and rockers, and the community quickly built stores, saloons, churches and a newspaper. Residents in 1899 knew the town for its wild growth, its lack of established law, and the sudden fortunes and failures that marked its first gold rush years.
| Created / published | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pillsbury & cleveland |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alaska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,666 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Nome City, Sept. 21, '99, a city two months old |
| Reference | AK Nome City 1 1899 |
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