Alaska Steamship Company at Piers 1 and 2, Seattle, circa 1898

• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1898
• Subjects: Alaska Pacific Steamship Company Animal teams > Washington (State) > Seattle Carts & wagons > American > Washington (State) > Seattle Piers & wharves > Washington (State) > Seattle; Klondike River; Pacific; Yukon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/11009

The Alaska Steamship Company was formed in 1894, initially to ship passengers and fishing products between Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. In 1896 gold was discovered on the banks of the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory, triggering a stampede of prospectors into Seattle and an era o...