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| Title | Claim no. 27 along Eldorado Creek showing mining dumps near Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1900 |
| Photographer | Larss & Duclos Studio |
| Date | 1900 |
| Notes | Caption on image: no. 27 Eldorado
Written on image: Larss & Duclos photo, Dawson, 1900.
Typed on verso: Claim No. 27, Eldorado. Beside the shaft are shown piles of pay dirt to be sluiced as soon as the spring thaw brought water from thawing glaciers and snowbanks. Eldorado Creek was literally a channel of gold. Not a blank claim was found on its four-mile length and most of the claims were fabulously rich. In 1898, ten million dollars was sluiced out from the Klondike creeks. In early spring, onions, radishes, lettuce and flowers were planted in the dirt which covered the roofs of the cabins. The heat from the inside forced growth.
PH Coll 306.75 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Gold mines--Yukon--Eldorado Creek |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Mining claims--Yukon--Eldorado Creek; Eldorado Creek (Yukon) |
| Location Depicted | Canada--Yukon |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC3622
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Larss and Duclos Photograph Collection. PH Coll 306 |
| Repository Collection Guide | To view the finding aid for this collection see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/LarssandDuclosPHColl306.xml |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | silver gelatin; b&w; 6.5 x 8.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL at 150 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 6 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2009. |
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