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| Advertisement | Northwest Mining Equipment (1898) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Seattle Hardware Company |
| Publication Source | Trade Register, Vol 10 (2), p. 31 |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | January 8, 1898
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| Advertisement Text | Miners' and mining equipment complete...Dealers in Washington and Alaska should fit out our miners for the Klondike and other mines in the Northwest. Send us your orders: immediate shipments made...Camp stoves, cooking utensils, picks (all kinds), shovels, miner's gold pans, gold scales, etc., etc. Milling, logging, and farming machinery. |
| Contextual Notes | In 1883, the Seattle Hardware Company opened a storefront in the Pioneer Square neighborhood. Financially fueled by outfitting miners of the Alaskan Gold Rush in the 1890s, it eventually moved into its own seven-story building on First Ave. S. and King St. in 1905.
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| Category | Klondike Gold Rush
Machinery, equipment and appliances
Farm machinery |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Mining equipment; Prospecting equipment & supplies |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Outfitting industry--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Geographic Coverage | United States
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0244 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.705 TRA |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from text at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008 |
