Cape Mountains, between 1901 and 1906

Handwritten on album page: Cape Mountains where tunneling has been done for 3 years for tin quartz. Tin City is at the foot on Bering Sea. PH Coll 49.81 The photographs from this album document many aspects of Eskimo life at Kingegan, and Bernardi's handwritten notes serve as informative captio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bernardi, Susan R.
Other Authors: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: 1901
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Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/8018
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Summary:Handwritten on album page: Cape Mountains where tunneling has been done for 3 years for tin quartz. Tin City is at the foot on Bering Sea. PH Coll 49.81 The photographs from this album document many aspects of Eskimo life at Kingegan, and Bernardi's handwritten notes serve as informative captions. Hunting and fishing activities, which include whaling and sealing, feature prominently in the album, as well as the caches used to store meat, boats, and other valuable objects safely. The reindeer herds imported from Siberia are also documented. Scanned from a photographic print at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2018