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| Title | Mining claim No. 2 at Snow Gulch, Alaska, ca. 1901. |
| Photographer | Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 |
| Date | ca. 1901 |
| Notes | Probably Snow Gulch located 6 miles north of Nome on the Seward Peninsula. Shows miners with sluicing operation. The man to the right, standing in front and by himself is Johan Olsen Sjolseth (1867 - 1938) from Oksendal in Norway. After 10 years in Alaska, he went into lumber business in Hoquiam, and then became a farmer on Fir Island. (Note from Jan O. Kolmann Johnsen. 07/2009)
Caption on image: ""No. 2 Snow Gulch""
Original image in Hegg Album 28, page 37.
Original photograph by Eric A. Hegg 1821; copied by Webster and Stevens 159.A
Nome Gold Rush. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Gold miners--Alaska--Snow Gulch
Gold mining--Alaska--Snow Gulch
Mining claims--Alaska--Snow Gulch
Sluices--Alaska--Snow Gulch
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Alaska--Gold discoveries
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Snow Gulch |
| Digital Collection | Eric A. Hegg Photographs
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| Order Number | HEG338
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | Hegg 1821 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Eric A. Hegg Photograph Collection. PH Coll 274
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 120 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 4/1999. |
