Men and dog outside ticket office in Nome

Shows signs advertising the Heron Commercial and Transportation Company, S.J. Heron, Mgr., and Ticket Office, E.G. McMicken, Gen. Agt. PH Coll 1239.3 Inupiaq Eskimos camped for centuries in the area around Nome before Russia claimed Alaska as its own. In the 18th century, Russians established a sett...

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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:alaskawcanada/359 2023-05-15T16:07:05+02:00 Men and dog outside ticket office in Nome University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division United States--Alaska--Nome 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. 2004. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/359 unknown Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC0311 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/359 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 Photographs of Nome, Alaska. PH Coll 1239 Ticket offices--Alaska--Nome Wooden buildings--Alaska--Nome Men--Alaska--Nome Dogs--Alaska-Nome Nome (Alaska)--Buildings structures etc Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:02:48Z Shows signs advertising the Heron Commercial and Transportation Company, S.J. Heron, Mgr., and Ticket Office, E.G. McMicken, Gen. Agt. PH Coll 1239.3 Inupiaq Eskimos camped for centuries in the area around Nome before Russia claimed Alaska as its own. In the 18th century, Russians established a settlement at St. Michael, 125 miles to the southeast. Fur traders and whales from many countries also worked the area coastline. A few church missions were established beginning in the 1880s, and trainers from Lapland (Norway) introduced reindeer herding to the Eskimos through the U.S. Government and missionaries. Gold was discovered in the Nome area in 1898 by three Swedes, prompting formation of the Cape Nome Mining District. When gold was found on the beaches of Nome the following summer, word spread rapidly, and by August 1900 there were 20,000 people in Nome. There are still 44 gold dredges in the Nome area and gold mining continues today. The oldest first-class city in Alaska, Nome was incorporated in 1901. By the 1920s, the boom town had shrunk to about 820 people. A fire in September 1934 destroyed most of the business district. Nome boomed again during World War II, when the federal government built an air base and support facilities. Thousands of aircraft and supplies moved through Nome under the Lend Lease program, supplying the Soviet Union for the Eastern Front. During the war, a number of Eskimos and other civilians came to Nome to work. [Source: http://www.inalaska.com/d/nome/history.html] Samuel J. Heron was born in Indiana ca. 1856. He was living in Seattle before moving to Alaska in 1899, where he was working as a miner in 1900. However, he listed his occupation as "Capitalist." [Source: 1900 U.S. Census] In the 1900 U.S. Census, Edgar G. McMicken is shown as being a passenger on the S.S. CLEVELAND in June, having just arrived in Nome from Seattle. In the 1910 Census, he is living in San Francisco with his wife Maude and is working as a clerk for a steamship company. He was born ca. 1871 in Canada. Other/Unknown Material eskimo* Inupiaq Nome Alaska Lapland University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Canada Maude ENVELOPE(168.417,168.417,-83.150,-83.150) Norway St Michael ENVELOPE(58.492,58.492,-67.195,-67.195) The Beaches ENVELOPE(-56.832,-56.832,49.583,49.583)
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topic Ticket offices--Alaska--Nome
Wooden buildings--Alaska--Nome
Men--Alaska--Nome
Dogs--Alaska-Nome
Nome (Alaska)--Buildings
structures
etc
spellingShingle Ticket offices--Alaska--Nome
Wooden buildings--Alaska--Nome
Men--Alaska--Nome
Dogs--Alaska-Nome
Nome (Alaska)--Buildings
structures
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Men and dog outside ticket office in Nome
topic_facet Ticket offices--Alaska--Nome
Wooden buildings--Alaska--Nome
Men--Alaska--Nome
Dogs--Alaska-Nome
Nome (Alaska)--Buildings
structures
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description Shows signs advertising the Heron Commercial and Transportation Company, S.J. Heron, Mgr., and Ticket Office, E.G. McMicken, Gen. Agt. PH Coll 1239.3 Inupiaq Eskimos camped for centuries in the area around Nome before Russia claimed Alaska as its own. In the 18th century, Russians established a settlement at St. Michael, 125 miles to the southeast. Fur traders and whales from many countries also worked the area coastline. A few church missions were established beginning in the 1880s, and trainers from Lapland (Norway) introduced reindeer herding to the Eskimos through the U.S. Government and missionaries. Gold was discovered in the Nome area in 1898 by three Swedes, prompting formation of the Cape Nome Mining District. When gold was found on the beaches of Nome the following summer, word spread rapidly, and by August 1900 there were 20,000 people in Nome. There are still 44 gold dredges in the Nome area and gold mining continues today. The oldest first-class city in Alaska, Nome was incorporated in 1901. By the 1920s, the boom town had shrunk to about 820 people. A fire in September 1934 destroyed most of the business district. Nome boomed again during World War II, when the federal government built an air base and support facilities. Thousands of aircraft and supplies moved through Nome under the Lend Lease program, supplying the Soviet Union for the Eastern Front. During the war, a number of Eskimos and other civilians came to Nome to work. [Source: http://www.inalaska.com/d/nome/history.html] Samuel J. Heron was born in Indiana ca. 1856. He was living in Seattle before moving to Alaska in 1899, where he was working as a miner in 1900. However, he listed his occupation as "Capitalist." [Source: 1900 U.S. Census] In the 1900 U.S. Census, Edgar G. McMicken is shown as being a passenger on the S.S. CLEVELAND in June, having just arrived in Nome from Seattle. In the 1910 Census, he is living in San Francisco with his wife Maude and is working as a clerk for a steamship company. He was born ca. 1871 in Canada.
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Photographs of Nome, Alaska. PH Coll 1239
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AWC0311
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