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| Title | Men shoveling dirt into flume at mining operation, Buster Creek, near Nome, 1906 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | 1906 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Shoveling in on No. 4 Buster Creek, Nome, Alaska, [illeg.] 10th 1906. Photo by F.H. Nowell, 5273 |
| Contextual Notes | Buster Creek flows southwest 3.5 miles to Nome River, 7 miles northeast of Nome on the Seward Peninsula. (pg. 170) 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 miners--Alaska--Buster Creek
Streams--Alaska
Flumes
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Gold mines and mining--Alaska--Buster Creek
Buster Creek (Alaska)
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska |
| Digital Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photographs
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| Order Number | NOW184 |
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| Negative Number | Nowell 5273 |
| 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. |
