Nome City, Alaska, 1899 – 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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Nome City, Alaska, 1899 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Main Street, Nome City, Sept. 22, '99
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Nome City, Alaska, 1899
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Nome, Alaska, in 1899 was a tent town of roughly a year and a half's standing, built along the Bering Sea shore of the Seward Peninsula. The name came from a blank on an old British chart, where a surveyor's note reading "? Name" was later read as "Cape Nome," and the label stuck to the settlement that grew up beneath it. Front Street and the streets behind it were lined with canvas and board buildings, and the summer season brought in men who would dig through the frozen ground during the long, dark winters that followed. Those who lived there knew Nome as a place where a claim could make a man rich in one season and where the next storm off the sound could wipe out a camp's supplies.
| Created / published | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pillsbury & cleveland |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alaska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,611 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Main Street, Nome City, Sept. 22, '99 |
| Reference | AK Nome City 1899 |
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