A placer gold mine on Moose Creek, Alaska – Historic Reproduction
(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 placer gold mine on Moose Creek, Alaska comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A placer gold mine on Moose Creek, Alaska
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A placer operation on Moose Creek in Alaska anchors this picture, where miners worked gold out of creek gravels rather than from solid rock. The halftone was reproduced from a photograph by Merl LaVoy, a photographer known for his views of the Alaska and Yukon goldfields in the early 1900s. It was copyrighted by the Mentor Association, whose illustrated magazine *The Mentor* carried such views to a national readership. The record dates the print to about 1914, a period when placer mining remained central to Alaska's gold economy, and the image shows the sluicing and gravel-washing methods of that era.
| Created / published | c1914. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Halftone repro. of photo by Merl LaVoy, copyrighted by the Mentor Association, Inc. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Alaska--M- C-; Mines...--Gold--Alaska--1914; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,112 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-139681 |
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