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Alaska Perseverance Co. mine at Silver Bow Basin near Juneau, June 10, 1915
Alaska Perseverance Co. mine at Silver Bow Basin near Juneau, June 10, 1915
TitleAlaska Perseverance Co. mine at Silver Bow Basin near Juneau, June 10, 1915
PhotographerUnknown
Date1915
NotesCaption on image: Perseverance Mine, June 10 -- 15

Filed in Alaska--Mining/Mines--Perseverance
Contextual NotesPerseverance is on the southeast side of Silverbow Basin, 3 miles east of Juneau. It is a former mining camp named about 1885 by miners for the Perseverance claim and mine. A mill and other and other buildings of the camp were destroyed by a snowslide in 1895. The mining camp remained in existence until 1921 when the mine was closed. [Source: Donald Orth. Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967.]
Subjects (LCTGM)Mining camps--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin; Gold mining--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin; Mine buildings--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin
Subjects (LCSH)Perseverance Mines Company; Gold mines and mining--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin; Industrial buildings--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin
Location DepictedUnited States--Alaska--Perseverance
Digital CollectionAlaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
Order NumberAWC0512
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionAlaska Photograph Collection
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004.
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