Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902

While some women traveled to the gold fields with their husbands, others made the trip on their own. Women worked on mining claims, taught school, or set up businesses of their own. They did laundry, cooked meals, ran hotels and dance halls, and otherwise provided services to others in the community...

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Main Author: Unknown
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Afro-Americans
Cleaning establishments
Gold rushes
Tents
Women > Employment
Yukon
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7047
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/7047 2023-05-15T18:48:37+02:00 Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902 Unknown Alaska; Yukon Territory Scanned from original photograph 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/7047 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection shs12965 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7047 Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Historical Society Collection Afro-Americans Cleaning establishments Gold rushes Tents Women--Employment image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:56:17Z While some women traveled to the gold fields with their husbands, others made the trip on their own. Women worked on mining claims, taught school, or set up businesses of their own. They did laundry, cooked meals, ran hotels and dance halls, and otherwise provided services to others in the community. This photo shows an African American woman at her laundry and mending business. It was taken at an unidentified location in Alaska or the Yukon sometime between 1897 and 1906. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 12 x 18 cm. Other/Unknown Material Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon
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topic Afro-Americans
Cleaning establishments
Gold rushes
Tents
Women--Employment
spellingShingle Afro-Americans
Cleaning establishments
Gold rushes
Tents
Women--Employment
Unknown
Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
topic_facet Afro-Americans
Cleaning establishments
Gold rushes
Tents
Women--Employment
description While some women traveled to the gold fields with their husbands, others made the trip on their own. Women worked on mining claims, taught school, or set up businesses of their own. They did laundry, cooked meals, ran hotels and dance halls, and otherwise provided services to others in the community. This photo shows an African American woman at her laundry and mending business. It was taken at an unidentified location in Alaska or the Yukon sometime between 1897 and 1906. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 12 x 18 cm.
format Other/Unknown Material
author Unknown
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author_sort Unknown
title Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
title_short Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
title_full Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
title_fullStr Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
title_full_unstemmed Laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
title_sort laundry woman during gold rush, ca. 1902
url http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7047
op_coverage Alaska; Yukon Territory
geographic Yukon
geographic_facet Yukon
genre Alaska
Yukon
genre_facet Alaska
Yukon
op_source Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
Seattle Historical Society Collection
op_relation Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection
shs12965
http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7047
op_rights Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
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