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Tramway hauling freight at Miles Canyon landing on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.
Tramway hauling freight at Miles Canyon landing on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.
TitleTramway hauling freight at Miles Canyon landing on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.
PhotographerBarley, H. C.
Dateca. 1899
NotesCaption on image: "Miles Canyon Landing"

The Canyon and White Horse Rapids Tramway Company was used for portaging around the Whitehorse Rapids on the Yukon River. Shows piles of goods on shore and unidentified steamboat in background.

PH Coll 246.124

[Meed journal: "Miles Canyon Landing. Upper end of White Horse and Miles Canyon tramway [sic]. Goods were unloaded here from Lake Bennett steamboats and then conveyed over the horse drawn log-tramway around the Canyon and the White Horse Rapids. From there on they were taken down the Yukon by other steamboats. The scow or barge to the right was used to transport animals."].

Klondike Gold Rush.
Subjects (LCTGM)Horse railroads--Yukon--Miles Canyon
Portages-Yukon--Miles Canyon
Subjects (LCSH)Canyon and White Horse Rapids Tramway Company (Yukon)
Freight and freightage--Yukon--Miles Canyon
Scows--Yukon--Miles Canyon
Location depictedCanada--Yukon Territory--Miles Canyon
Digital CollectionWilliam E. Meed Collection
Order NumberMEE198
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionWilliam E. Meed Photograph Collection. PH Coll 246
Harry C. Barley Photograph Collection. PH Coll 296.32
Repository Collection GuideTo view the finding aid for this collection see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/MeedWilliamPHColl246.xml
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a 35mm color slide copied from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 72 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3. 6/1998.
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