Group of Forty Mile miners, Alaska, 1895
Caption on image: 63. Copyright 1895. By Veazie Wilson. Text from book handwritten on verso: One hundred thousand men could prospect the Yukon Basin and be lost to one another. The greatest drawback is the limit of supplies. PH Coll 311.3 Veazie Wilson was as amateur photographer who documented the...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:alaskawcanada/2643 2023-05-15T18:45:51+02:00 Group of Forty Mile miners, Alaska, 1895 Wilson, Veazie University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division United States--Alaska 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2008. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/2643 unknown Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC3489 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/2643 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division Veazie Wilson Photographs. PH Coll 311 Miners--Alaska Group portraits Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:03:48Z Caption on image: 63. Copyright 1895. By Veazie Wilson. Text from book handwritten on verso: One hundred thousand men could prospect the Yukon Basin and be lost to one another. The greatest drawback is the limit of supplies. PH Coll 311.3 Veazie Wilson was as amateur photographer who documented the Fort Wrangell and Juneau area as well as the Yukon Territory between 1894-1895. He wanted to create a guide book to attract miners to the Alaskan region, but died of typhoid fever in 1895 prior to the publication of his book. The book was titled Ester Lyon's Glimpse of Alaska: A Collection of Views of the Interior of Alaska and the Klondike District from Photographs by Veazie Wilson, and was published in 1897. Other/Unknown Material Yukon Basin Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Yukon Basin ENVELOPE(-135.000,-135.000,64.282,64.282) |
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Caption on image: 63. Copyright 1895. By Veazie Wilson. Text from book handwritten on verso: One hundred thousand men could prospect the Yukon Basin and be lost to one another. The greatest drawback is the limit of supplies. PH Coll 311.3 Veazie Wilson was as amateur photographer who documented the Fort Wrangell and Juneau area as well as the Yukon Territory between 1894-1895. He wanted to create a guide book to attract miners to the Alaskan region, but died of typhoid fever in 1895 prior to the publication of his book. The book was titled Ester Lyon's Glimpse of Alaska: A Collection of Views of the Interior of Alaska and the Klondike District from Photographs by Veazie Wilson, and was published in 1897. |
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