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[Nome (and vicinity), Alaska, 1900]: Wreckage along Snake River, Nome [caused by storm] – Antique Print

[Nome (and vicinity), Alaska, 1900]: Wreckage along Snake River, Nome [caused by storm], c1900. — historic photograph
[Nome (and vicinity), Alaska, 1900]: Wreckage along Snake River, Nome [caused by storm], c1900.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Nome (and vicinity), Alaska, 1900]: Wreckage along Snake River, Nome [caused by storm]

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Storm wreckage piled along the Snake River at Nome, Alaska, sets this view apart from other scenes of the town. Nome was a boomtown in the late 1890s and 1900, when gold strikes on the Seward Peninsula drew thousands of miners to a shoreline of tents and hastily built frame structures exposed to the open waters of Norton Sound. A photoprint copyrighted by William Hester of Seattle records the aftermath, though its date and cause come from an old caption card and have not been verified.

Created / publishedc1900.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by William Hester, Seattle, Wash. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Storms.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144175

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