Shooting White Horse Rapids in a canoe, 1905
People traveling to the Klondike had to survive the dangers of the Yukon River to reach the gold fields. The river's White Horse Rapids were so treacherous that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allowed only men to run them in boats. Women and children had to walk around the rapids. In this 190...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/5460 2023-05-15T18:45:52+02:00 Shooting White Horse Rapids in a canoe, 1905 Webster & Stevens Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska); White Horse Rapids (Yukon) Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5460 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1983.10.13100 W&S 15,705 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/5460 PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection Gold rushes Canoes Rivers Shooting rapids photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:55:38Z People traveling to the Klondike had to survive the dangers of the Yukon River to reach the gold fields. The river's White Horse Rapids were so treacherous that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allowed only men to run them in boats. Women and children had to walk around the rapids. In this 1905 photo, taken at the Yukon River, three men run the White Horse Rapids in a canoe. 1 negative: glass, b&w; 8 x 10 in. Other/Unknown Material Yukon river Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon |
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People traveling to the Klondike had to survive the dangers of the Yukon River to reach the gold fields. The river's White Horse Rapids were so treacherous that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police allowed only men to run them in boats. Women and children had to walk around the rapids. In this 1905 photo, taken at the Yukon River, three men run the White Horse Rapids in a canoe. 1 negative: glass, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
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