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| Title | Gastineau Channel from Mount Roberts, n.d. |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | On verso of image: Gastineau Channel from Mt. Roberts. Two jumps over the bluff to Juneau.
Filed in Alaska--Cities/Locations--Juneau |
| Contextual Notes | Tlingit and Haida Indians were the sole human residents in what is now the Juneau area until 1880, when two vagabond prospectors named Joe Juneau and Dick Harris hacked their way through the thick rain forest around Gastineau Channel to Snow Slide Gulch, at the head of Gold Creek. Their efforts, aided by a Sitka mining engineer who received tips from Chief Kowee of a Tlingit tribe, were well-rewarded: at journey's end were 'little lumps as large as peas and beans.' There was gold in thar pots. The dynamic duo staked out a site and almost instantly a mining camp appeared. Within a year the camp became a small town, the first to be founded after Alaska's purchase from the Russians. The town was first called Harrisburg and then Rockwell, then in 1881 the miners officially decided on Juneau.After Sitka lost some importance with the lagging whaling and fur trade, Juneau became Alaska's new capital in 1906.[Source: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/north_america/juneau/history.htm] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Channels--Alaska |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Gastineau Channel (Alaska); Straits--Alaska |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Juneau |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC0242
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Alaska Photograph Collection |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned 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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