Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898
Prospectors had hunted gold in the Klondike region since the 1880s. In August 1896, three men made a strike on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. The strike was so large that they renamed the creek Bonanza. By the end of 1898, 40,000 people had poured into Dawson, Yukon Territory, to h...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/7043 2023-05-15T16:00:17+02:00 Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 Dawson (Yukon) Scanned from original photograph using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 24-bit RGB color, 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/7043 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1978.6557.30 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7043 Eric A. Hegg Alaska Gold Rush Photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Eric A. Hegg Alaska Gold Rush Photographs Dogs Camps Gold rushes Rivers image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:56:17Z Prospectors had hunted gold in the Klondike region since the 1880s. In August 1896, three men made a strike on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. The strike was so large that they renamed the creek Bonanza. By the end of 1898, 40,000 people had poured into Dawson, Yukon Territory, to hunt for Klondike gold. This photo, probably taken in 1898, shows the city of Dawson at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. A dog stands in the foreground looking at the photographer. Original photograph: 1898?. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry. 1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in. Other/Unknown Material Dawson Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Bonanza ENVELOPE(-119.820,-119.820,55.917,55.917) Klondike River ENVELOPE(-139.442,-139.442,64.054,64.054) |
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Dogs Camps Gold rushes Rivers |
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Dogs Camps Gold rushes Rivers Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 |
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Prospectors had hunted gold in the Klondike region since the 1880s. In August 1896, three men made a strike on Rabbit Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River. The strike was so large that they renamed the creek Bonanza. By the end of 1898, 40,000 people had poured into Dawson, Yukon Territory, to hunt for Klondike gold. This photo, probably taken in 1898, shows the city of Dawson at the junction of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. A dog stands in the foreground looking at the photographer. Original photograph: 1898?. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry. 1 photographic print: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
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Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 |
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Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 |
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Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 |
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Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 |
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Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 |
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Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 |
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Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 |
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Tent city at Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898 |
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tent city at dawson, yukon territory, ca. 1898 |
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Dawson (Yukon) |
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ENVELOPE(-119.820,-119.820,55.917,55.917) ENVELOPE(-139.442,-139.442,64.054,64.054) |
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Yukon Bonanza Klondike River |
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Yukon Bonanza Klondike River |
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Dawson Yukon |
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Dawson Yukon |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Eric A. Hegg Alaska Gold Rush Photographs |
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Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1978.6557.30 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7043 |
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Eric A. Hegg Alaska Gold Rush Photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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