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Str. WILLAMETTE discharging freight at Skaguay, Alaska – Historic Reproduction

Str. WILLAMETTE discharging freight at Skaguay, Alaska, c1897. — historic photograph
Str. WILLAMETTE discharging freight at Skaguay, Alaska, c1897.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Str. WILLAMETTE discharging freight at Skaguay, Alaska. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Str. WILLAMETTE discharging freight at Skaguay, Alaska

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Unloading freight on the waterfront at Skaguay, the steamer Willamette lies alongside in this view from about 1897, when the town was swept up in the Klondike gold rush. Thousands of prospectors passed through Skagway in 1897 and 1898 on their way over the passes toward the Yukon, and every sack of flour and crate of tools had to be landed by ship before it could be hauled inland. The print is credited to the photographers Winter & Pond, and its stacked cargo and crowded dock show the supply chain that made the boom possible.

Created / publishedc1897.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint copyrighted by Winter & Pond. No. 355. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ships; Freight; Gold Rush.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,039 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157994

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