Steamship office and drug store in Nome, Alaska, ca. 1903

• Main Author: Dobbs, B. B. (Beverly Bennett)
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Gold rushes; Nome City Drug Store; Pacific Coast Steamship Co. > Buildings; Stores & shops; Wooden sidewalks; Pacific; Nome; Alaska
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/7306

By late fall 1899, reports of gold strikes at Nome gained enough credibility to draw gold seekers from Dawson. Some 2,500 people left Dawson for Nome, traveling by river or trail. Once the word was out in Seattle and elsewhere, the small settlement grew quickly. This photo shows a commercial building in Nome sometime between 1900 and 1905. A drugstore and doctor's office occupies the left side of the building and a steamship office occupies the right side. By late 1899, Nome already had four drugstores. 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w; 21 x 15 cm.