Street scene and dog team, 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: Street scene and dog team, Alaska, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Street scene and dog team, Alaska
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A team of sled dogs and their driver stand on a street in Alaska, with the harnessed animals and sled marking winter travel as an everyday part of life in the territory. The stereo card was copyrighted by the Keystone View Company, a commercial publisher of stereographs, and its caption tags link the scene to the Klondike and to gold-mining towns from the region's boom period in the late 1890s. Dog teams carried mail, freight and passengers where roads were scarce, so the picture shows a working vehicle as much as a novelty. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two slightly offset images would have given the street a convincing sense of depth.
| Created / published | c1926. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View Co. No. 21090. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Dog sleds; Alaska--Klondyke; Gold--Towns; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 797 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133075 |
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