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| Title | Photo of Fred Matthiesen & F.F. Coffin with largest nugget found in Yukon, ca. 1888 |
| Photographer | Wolf Photo, Dawson V.T. |
| Date | ca. 1888 |
| Notes | Fred Matthiesen, a Rainier Valley resident, went to the Yukon in 1897 as one of the 10, 000 hopeful miners who went north in that first year of the gold rush. This gold nugget was found "below Upper Discovery Dominion Creek." |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Rainier Valley; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a copy of this photograph, please email Rvhsoffice@aol.com and mention the Accession Number. |
| Credit Line | Rainier Valley Historical Society Photograph Collection |
| Repository | Rainier Valley Historical Society, Seattle |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | 95.77.225 |
