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| Title | Mining operations, Silver Bow Basin, Alaska, n.d. |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Photo by F.H. Nowell, 1457
On verso of image: Silver Bow Basin, Alaska |
| Contextual Notes | Valley on Gold Creek, north of Icy Gulch, 1.5 miles north of the Gastineau Peak and 2.4 miles northeast of Juneau. Named by Richard Harris in 1880 for the Silver Bow Mine in Montana. This basin was the site of the earliest gold discoveries in the Juneau area. (pg. 874) 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 (LCSH) | 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 | NOW034 |
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| 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. |
