Placer Mining near the Yukon River, Alaska – Historic 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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Step back in time with Placer Mining near the Yukon River, Alaska, 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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Placer Mining near the Yukon River, Alaska
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Placer mining near the Yukon River puts this stereograph in the Alaska interior during the 1898 gold rush, when prospectors pushed north toward the Klondike fields. The Keystone View Company issued the card as No. 9374 and credited B.L. Singley, and its stereo views were sold to parlor audiences who looked at them through hand viewers. The caption tags also mention railroads and travel, reflecting how steamboats, trails and new rail lines moved men and supplies into the region. The card's catalog details are old and unverified, so treat the exact site as a general picture of gold country at that time.
| Created / published | c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley - Keystone View Co. No. 9374. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Alaska--Klondyke; Railroads--Car Int.--1898; Gold--Mining; Gold--Traveling to. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 815 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-133065 |
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