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| Title | Perseverance gold mine, Silver Bow Basin, 1908 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | 1908 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Perseverance Mine, Silver Bow Basin, Alaska, 1908. 2415. |
| Contextual Notes | Former mining camp on the southeast side of Silverbow Basin, 3 miles east of Juneau. Named about 1885 by miners for the Perseverance claim and mine. A mill and other buildings of the camp were destroyed by a snowslide in 1895. The mining camp remained in existence until 1921, when the mine was closed. (pg. 750) Notes from Donald Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967)
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Gold mining--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin
Mine buildings--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Perseverance Mine (Alaska)
Gold mines and mining--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Silver Bow Basin |
| Digital Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photographs
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| Order Number | NOW090 |
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| Negative Number | Nowell x2415 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photograph Collection. PH Coll 316
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2002. |
