Douglas, Alaska, 1908 – 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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A window into the past: Douglas, Alaska, 1908, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Douglas, Alaska]
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Douglas, Alaska, 1908
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Douglas, Alaska, sat on Douglas Island across a narrow channel from Juneau in 1908, and its fortunes rested on gold. The Treadwell mine, one of the largest hard-rock gold operations in the world at the time, had been drawing ore from under Gastineau Channel since the 1880s, and its stamp mills and workers' housing shaped the town's streets and waterfront. Douglas had its own city government and a growing population of miners, mill hands, and merchants, many of whom had arrived during the Klondike and Nome rushes and stayed on. The town had suffered a serious blow in 1917, when a cave-in flooded the Treadwell workings and closed the mine, but in 1908 the stamp mills were running day and night.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | winter & pond |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alaska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,732 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Douglas, Alaska] |
| Reference | AK Douglas 1908 |
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