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| Title | A prospector, ca. 1905 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H. |
| Date | ca. 1905 |
| Caption | The mining in the Alaska gold rush was mainly surface mining. The gold had been washed away from its original location and had collected in river gravel and beach sand. Miners took a sample of sand or gravel, washed it in a pan to separate out any gold, and staked a claim if it looked like there might be more gold there.
This photo shows a prospector panning for gold, probably near Nome. At Nome, the beach was open to all, and no claims were allowed. The photo was taken by Frank H. Nowell in about 1905, after the peak of the Nome gold rush. |
| Notes | Original copy negative.
Original photograph: Nowell, Frank H., ca. 1905. Copied after 1947 by Webster & Stevens |
| Subjects | Gold rushes; Gold miners; Gold mining Men--Employment |
| Places | Nome (Alaska) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.13102 |
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| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 negative : safety film, b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
