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Hydraulic mining on Bonanza Creek, Yukon territory, ca. 1899
Hydraulic mining on Bonanza Creek, Yukon territory, ca. 1899
TitleHydraulic mining on Bonanza Creek, Yukon territory, ca. 1899
PhotographerCurtis, Asahel, 1874-1941
Dateca. 1899
NotesOn verso of image: Dawson-Hydraulic mining on Bonanza Creek. Following the hand milling the creek claims passed into larger holdings. $8, 000, 000 was spent on a flume line from the upper Klondike River and the hills were washed away. Even in the summer the lands of the North are frozen to unknown depths and can be washed down only as they thaw.
Subjects (LCTGM)Gold mining--Yukon; Hydraulic mining--Yukon
Location DepictedCanada--Yukon
Digital CollectionAsahel Curtis Collection
Order NumberCUR1783
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionAsahel Curtis Photo Co. Collection. PH Coll 482
Physical DescriptionPhotograph : silver gelatin, b&w
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2002.
Photographer's Reference Number29106
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