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Tlingit Indian women selling baskets, Treadwell gold mines, Douglas Island, Alaska, ca. 1894.
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| Title | Tlingit Indian women selling baskets, Treadwell gold mines, Douglas Island, Alaska, ca. 1894. |
| Photographer | La Roche, Frank |
| Date | ca. 1894 |
| Notes | Caption on image: ""Indian merchants at Treadwell Mines""
After the Treadwell Mines opened in 1881, women came from nearby villages to sell baskets, beaded clothing, and other wares to the gold miners and tourists. The baskets for sale in this photograph are Tlingit in style. The Treadwell Mines were located on Douglas Island, across the channel from Juneau.
After photographing many parts of the United States, Frank La Roche arrived in Seattle in 1889. He was active in Seattle and beginning in 1898, made around 100 trips to Alaska and the Yukon. La Roche retired in 1912 and died in Sedro-Wooley, Washington in the 1930s. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Oct. 4, 1906; Carl Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers, p. 500.) |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Baskets
Women--Alaska--Douglas Island
Clothing & dress--Alaska--Douglas Island
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Treadwell Mines
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Douglas Island--Commerce
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Douglas Island--Women
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Douglas Island--Clothing & dress
Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Douglas Island--Arts & crafts
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Treadwell |
| Digital Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | LAR136 |
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| Negative Number | NA905 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection. PH Coll 283 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3. 8/1998. |
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