Cleaning up on No. 8 : Cooper Gulch, ca. 1900
The last stage in the gold mining process was called the cleanup. After the last of the gold was washed from the last bit of pay dirt, the miners weighed it to see how much gold they had gotten. This photo shows a group of spectators watching a cleanup at Cooper Gulch. A mine worker holds a rake whi...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/7297 2023-05-15T18:48:51+02:00 Cleaning up on No. 8 : Cooper Gulch, ca. 1900 Bell & Co. 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/7297 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection shs6928 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7297 Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Historical Society Collection Gold miners Gold mining Gold rushes Sluices Spectators image; photograph ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:56:21Z The last stage in the gold mining process was called the cleanup. After the last of the gold was washed from the last bit of pay dirt, the miners weighed it to see how much gold they had gotten. This photo shows a group of spectators watching a cleanup at Cooper Gulch. A mine worker holds a rake while water washes through the the last of the gravel in the bottom of a sluice. The claim owner or manager is probably one of the onlookers. The exact location of Cooper Gulch in Alaska or the Yukon Territory is unknown. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 10 x 12 cm. Other/Unknown Material Alaska Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Gulch ENVELOPE(-61.483,-61.483,-63.997,-63.997) Yukon |
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The last stage in the gold mining process was called the cleanup. After the last of the gold was washed from the last bit of pay dirt, the miners weighed it to see how much gold they had gotten. This photo shows a group of spectators watching a cleanup at Cooper Gulch. A mine worker holds a rake while water washes through the the last of the gravel in the bottom of a sluice. The claim owner or manager is probably one of the onlookers. The exact location of Cooper Gulch in Alaska or the Yukon Territory is unknown. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 10 x 12 cm. |
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Bell & Co. |
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Bell & Co. |
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Cleaning up on No. 8 : Cooper Gulch, ca. 1900 |
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Cleaning up on No. 8 : Cooper Gulch, ca. 1900 |
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Cleaning up on No. 8 : Cooper Gulch, ca. 1900 |
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Cleaning up on No. 8 : Cooper Gulch, ca. 1900 |
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cleaning up on no. 8 : cooper gulch, ca. 1900 |
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ENVELOPE(-61.483,-61.483,-63.997,-63.997) |
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Gulch Yukon |
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Alaska Yukon |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Historical Society Collection |
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