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Council City and Solomon River Railroad passenger train at Dickson, October 1, 1905
Council City and Solomon River Railroad passenger train at Dickson, October 1, 1905
TitleCouncil City and Solomon River Railroad passenger train at Dickson, October 1, 1905
PhotographerNowell, Frank H., 1864-1950
Date1905
NotesCaption on image: Council City & Salomon River R.R. passenger train at Dickson, Alaska. Oct. 1st 1905. Photo by F.H. Nowell, 4498.
Contextual NotesDickson is located on the east bank of Solomon River on Norton Sound, 0.8 miles southeast of Solomon, Seward Peninsula. It was established about 1903 as the southern terminus and port of the Council City and Solomon River Railroad. (pg. 272) Notes from Donald Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967)

Subjects (LCTGM)Railroad passenger cars--Alaska--Dickson
Railroad tracks--Alaska--Dickson
Railroad locomotives--Alaska--Dickson
Subjects (LCSH)Council City & Solomon River Railroad
Steam locomotives--Alaska--Dickson
Location DepictedUnited States--Alaska--Dickson
Digital CollectionFrank H. Nowell Photographs
Order NumberNOW148
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Negative NumberNowell 4498
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
Repository CollectionFrank H. Nowell Photograph Collection. PH Coll 316
Object TypePhotograph
Physical DescriptionSilver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in.
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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.
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