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| Title | Klondikers with tents camped at the approach to Chilkoot Pass, Alaska, 1897. |
| Photographer | La Roche, Frank |
| Date | 1897 |
| Notes | Caption on image: ""45 [degrees] incline and summit of Chilkoot Pass. c1897""
""Forty-five degrees incline and summit of Chilkoot Pass. This is the most difficult and dreaded portion of the journey, the trail rising here eleven feet in half a mile over a perfect maze of broken rock. In this photograph may be seen an almost continuous line of white specks reaching to the depression at the summit. Each is a human being with a pack upon his back toiling slowly upward. Toward the summit is a sheer ascent of 1, 000 feet, where a slip would certainly be fatal."" (Frank La Roche, En Route to the Klondike, 1898)
Klondike Gold Rush. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Tents--Alaska
Mountains--Alaska
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Chilkoot Pass
Chilkoot Trail
Trails--Alaska
Mountain passes--Alaska
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Chilkoot Pass |
| Digital Collection | Frank La Roche Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | LAR226 |
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| Negative Number | La Roche 2041 |
| 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. |
