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| Title | Juneau and the Alaska-Juneau Gold Mine as seen from the water, ca. 1936 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | ca. 1936 |
| Notes | Caption on image: View of Juneau Alaska, ASN-No. 1086H-139
On verso of image: Alaska Has A Gold Boom. Gold production in Alaska is reaching a $20, 000, 000 tempo for 1935, with more mines, mills sluices, and placers working than for a quarter of a century. Production in 1934 was $16, 000, 000. This is Juneau, capital city of Alaska, with Alaska-Juneau Gold mill on the hill in the foreground.
Filed in Alaska--Cities/Location--Juneau |
| Contextual Notes | In 1916, the Alaska-Juneau gold mine was built on the mainland, and became the largest operation of its kind in the world. The A-J Mine closed in 1944, after producing over $80 million in gold. [Source: http://www.wingsofalaska.com/juneau.htm ] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Mine buildings--Alaska--Juneau; Mills--Alaska--Juneau; Piers & wharves--Alaska--Juneau |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Alaska-Juneau Gold Mine--Buildings; Industrial buildings--Alaska--Juneau; Juneau (Alaska)--Buildings, structures, etc. |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Juneau |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC1060
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| Negative Number | UW8074 |
| 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. 2005. |
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http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc-use.html |
