Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901

Few if any non-native people were in the Nome area before gold prospectors arrived around 1898. By 1900, the area had several thousand new inhabitants and an organized town government. Nome's Front Street was lined with wooden buildings housing law offices, steamship ticket offices, cigar store...

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Main Author: Hammond, H.E.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Cities & towns
Crowds
Gold rushes
Streets
Nome
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7252
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/7252 2023-05-15T17:23:57+02:00 Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901 Hammond, H.E. Nome (Alaska) 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/7252 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection shs4373 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7252 Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Historical Society Collection Cities & towns Crowds Gold rushes Streets image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:56:21Z Few if any non-native people were in the Nome area before gold prospectors arrived around 1898. By 1900, the area had several thousand new inhabitants and an organized town government. Nome's Front Street was lined with wooden buildings housing law offices, steamship ticket offices, cigar stores, drugstores, restaurants, hotels, and many other businesses. This photo of Front Street in Nome was taken by local photographer H.E. Hammond in 1901 or 1902. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and street. A sign (right) advertises that the Bank of Cape Nome will pay the "highest price for gold dust." Original photograph: Hammond, H.E., 1901 or 1902. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7 x 9 in. Other/Unknown Material Nome Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections
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topic Cities & towns
Crowds
Gold rushes
Streets
spellingShingle Cities & towns
Crowds
Gold rushes
Streets
Hammond, H.E.
Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901
topic_facet Cities & towns
Crowds
Gold rushes
Streets
description Few if any non-native people were in the Nome area before gold prospectors arrived around 1898. By 1900, the area had several thousand new inhabitants and an organized town government. Nome's Front Street was lined with wooden buildings housing law offices, steamship ticket offices, cigar stores, drugstores, restaurants, hotels, and many other businesses. This photo of Front Street in Nome was taken by local photographer H.E. Hammond in 1901 or 1902. Pedestrians crowd the sidewalks and street. A sign (right) advertises that the Bank of Cape Nome will pay the "highest price for gold dust." Original photograph: Hammond, H.E., 1901 or 1902. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry. 1 photographic print: b&w; 7 x 9 in.
format Other/Unknown Material
author Hammond, H.E.
author_facet Hammond, H.E.
author_sort Hammond, H.E.
title Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901
title_short Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901
title_full Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901
title_fullStr Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901
title_full_unstemmed Front Street, Nome, Alaska, ca. 1901
title_sort front street, nome, alaska, ca. 1901
url http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7252
op_coverage Nome (Alaska)
genre Nome
Alaska
genre_facet Nome
Alaska
op_source Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI)
Seattle Historical Society Collection
op_relation Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection
shs4373
http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7252
op_rights Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
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