Frank Cromier gold claim showing miners working sluices, Miller Creek, Alaska, 1895

• Main Author: Wilson, Veazie, 1865-1895
• Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Gold miners > Alaska > Miller Creek; Gold mining > Alaska > Miller Creek; Sluices; Gold mines and mining > Alaska > Miller Creek; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/2644

Caption on image: 89. Copyright 1895. By Veazie Wilson. Text from book handwritten on verso: Frank Cromier cliam. Miller Creek. Placer gold came there by being ground by natural processes out of the quartz or other matrix where nature placed it, and deposited in a natural and unmixed state amid the washings of the hill. Page 73. PH Coll 311.4 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.