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Klondikers recovering the bodies of the tramway workers buried in the avalanche on Chilkoot Pass, Alaska, April 3, 1898
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| Title | Klondikers recovering the bodies of the tramway workers buried in the avalanche on Chilkoot Pass, Alaska, April 3, 1898 |
| Photographer | Hegg, Eric A., 1867-1948 |
| Date | 1898 |
| Notes | [Aftermath of the April 3, 1898 avalanche between Sheep Camp and Chilkoot summit]. Sixty-three bodies were dug out from the snow. (Murray Morgan, One Man's Gold Rush, p. 60)
Caption on image: ""Exhumation of the bodies of the tramway men buried in the snow-slide on Chilkoot Pass. April 3rd 1898, copyright 1898.""
Klondike Gold Rush. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Avalanches--Alaska--Chilkoot Pass
Disaster victims--Alaska--Chilkoot Pass
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Chilkoot Pass (Alaska)
Mountain passes--Alaska
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Chilkoot Pass |
| Digital Collection | Eric A. Hegg Photographs
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| Order Number | HEG053
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | Hegg 202 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Eric A. Hegg Photograph Collection. PH Coll 274
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 120 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 4/1999. |
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