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| Title | Reindeer in pens awaiting transport to Alaska on the deck of the three-masted bark SEMINOLE, Seattle, Washington, March 1898 |
| Photographer | Kiehl, H. Ambrose |
| Date | 1898 |
| Dates | 1898 |
| Notes | In the late 1880's and 1890's, the Seminole was a bark working on the West Coast, active in the lumber trade. In 1897-8 Sheldon Jackson, the well-known Presbyterian missionary from Alaska, lobbyed the U.S. government to finance a relief expedition of a herd of caribou to the Klondike to alleviate fears of an impending famine in the region becuase of the flood of prospectors expected to arrive in the area due to the gold rush. This sailing ship was used to transport the reindeer north to Alaska, even though by the time the herd reached Seattle for transport the urgent need to supply food for the Alaska miners was gone.
Text from Kiehl log: Reindeer on bark Seminole. March 1898.
Album 2.101 |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Reindeer--Washington (State)--Seattle
Seminole (Ship)
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| Concepts | Animal themes
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | H. Ambrose Kiehl Photographs |
| Order Number | KHL231 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | H. Ambrose Kiehl Photographs. PH Coll 574 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 to 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2000-2009. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 3x3-101 |
