Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905

By 1901, many of Alaska's small scale mining operations had been replaced by large industrial mining companies. Miners lived in camps near the mining operations. This B.B. Dobbs photo shows cabins and mining activities somewhere near Nome. Piles of pay dirt dwarf the small buildings. The small...

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Main Author: Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Subjects:
Gold mining
Gold rushes
Houses
Tents
Privies
Stores & shops
Work camps
Nome
Alaska
Online Access:http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7266
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spelling ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/7266 2023-05-15T17:23:58+02:00 Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905 Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett) Nome Region (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/7266 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection shs516 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7266 Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Historical Society Collection Gold mining Gold rushes Houses Tents Privies Stores & shops Work camps image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:56:21Z By 1901, many of Alaska's small scale mining operations had been replaced by large industrial mining companies. Miners lived in camps near the mining operations. This B.B. Dobbs photo shows cabins and mining activities somewhere near Nome. Piles of pay dirt dwarf the small buildings. The small structure in the foreground may be an outhouse. The building to the far right, probably a commissary, has a sign reading "It pays to trade at Alaska Mercantile Company." 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 20 x 24 cm. Other/Unknown Material Nome Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections
institution Open Polar
collection University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections
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language unknown
topic Gold mining
Gold rushes
Houses
Tents
Privies
Stores & shops
Work camps
spellingShingle Gold mining
Gold rushes
Houses
Tents
Privies
Stores & shops
Work camps
Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905
topic_facet Gold mining
Gold rushes
Houses
Tents
Privies
Stores & shops
Work camps
description By 1901, many of Alaska's small scale mining operations had been replaced by large industrial mining companies. Miners lived in camps near the mining operations. This B.B. Dobbs photo shows cabins and mining activities somewhere near Nome. Piles of pay dirt dwarf the small buildings. The small structure in the foreground may be an outhouse. The building to the far right, probably a commissary, has a sign reading "It pays to trade at Alaska Mercantile Company." 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 20 x 24 cm.
format Other/Unknown Material
author Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
author_facet Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
author_sort Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
title Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905
title_short Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905
title_full Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905
title_fullStr Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905
title_full_unstemmed Cabins and mining activities near Nome, ca. 1905
title_sort cabins and mining activities near nome, ca. 1905
url http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7266
op_coverage Nome Region (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
shs516
http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7266
op_rights Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved
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