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Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897.
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| Title | Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897. |
| Photographer | La Roche, Frank |
| Date | 1897 |
| Notes | Caption on image: ""Washing out gold""
""Washing out gold. This picture shows a group of miners in the act of ""washing out"" gold, as in the days of '49. The camp is but temporary and work not yet begun in dead ernest. The men are testing the sand and gravel deposit along the edge of the stream in the hope of striking ""pay dirt"". In the bottom of the pan settles the gravel, and with it the grains of yellow metal so anxiously sought. It is from this method of mining, so popular in the early California days, that the expression ""panned out"" arose, and from which so many fortunes are made by men whose outfits cost so little."" (Frank La Roche, En Route to the Klondike, 1898)
Klondike Gold Rush. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Gold mining--Alaska
Gold miners--Alaska
Rivers--Alaska
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Alaska--Gold discoveries
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska |
| Digital Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | LAR214 |
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| Negative Number | La Roche 2027 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection. PH Coll 283 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3. 8/1998. |
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