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| Title | Klondikers whipsawing lumber for building boats, Lindeman Lake, Chilkoot Trail, ca. 1898 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1898 |
| Notes | On verso of image: Lake Linderman
Filed in Canada--British Columbia--Lindeman Lake |
| Contextual Notes | Most stampeders camped beside Lake Lindeman and Lake Bennett needed to build their own boats, having declined to drag a boat over White Pass Chilkoot Pass. The preferred wood cutting technique, known as "whipsawing" led to more than a few disagreements and fights. Logs placed on stands were sawed by one man standing on top of the log with one end of the saw and a second man standing below the log holding the other end. The work was so hard, that no matter which position he took, it was easy to for each man to believe that he was doing all the work. [Source: National Postal Museum web site, http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/bennett.html] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Miners--British Columbia; Woodcutting--British Columbia; Saws--British Columbia; Lakes--British Columbia |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Lindeman, Lake (Stikine, B.C.) |
| Location Depicted | Canada--British Columbia--Lindeman lake |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC0804
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| Negative Number | UW25737z |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Canada Photograph Collection. PH Coll 393 |
| 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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