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| Title | White Pass & Yukon Route sleigh, 1905 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1905 |
| Caption | Some of the people heading to the Yukon gold fields sailed to Skagway and then packed their equipment and food through White Pass on horses and mules. Conditions along the trail were poor, and thousands of pack animals died. In 1900, the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad was completed between Skagway on the coast and Whitehorse on the Yukon River. The following year, the company began wagon service between Whitehorse and Dawson in the summertime. Wagons were replaced by sleighs for winter travel.
This 1905 photo shows one of the sleighs used in the wintertime on the White Pass & Yukon Route stage line. The stage route ran between Whitehorse and Dawson from 1901 to 1921. |
| Notes | Original photograph: 1905. Copied after 1947 by Webster & Stevens |
| Subjects | Gold rushes; Sleds & sleighs; Horse teams; Snow; White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm) |
| Places | Yukon Territory |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.13146 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative : safety film, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
