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Str'White Horse in Five Fingers – Vintage Wall Art

Str'White Horse in Five Fingers, 1920 — historic photograph
Str'White Horse in Five Fingers, 1920. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Step back in time with Str'White Horse in Five Fingers, 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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Str'White Horse in Five Fingers

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Despite its name, this 1920 photograph shows a steamboat rather than a horse: the stern-wheeler White Horse working through the Five Fingers, a set of rock pillars that split the Yukon River into narrow channels and made navigation a hard test for pilots. Stern-wheelers like this one carried freight and passengers along the river, and they remained important until the White Pass railway took over much of that trade. The print was made by the Hamacher studio in Whitehorse and later entered the Frank and Frances Carpenter collection at the Library of Congress, which received it as a gift in 1951.

Created / published1920
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1920.
NotesTitle transcribed from caption accompanying item. Original copyright holder: Hamacher Photographer, White Horse, Yukon Territory. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.
SubjectsSteamboats--Yukon Territory--1920. Bodies of water--Yukon Territory--1920.United States--Alaska
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,254 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140768

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