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| Title | Looking north up the Dyea River south of Canyon City, Chilkoot Trail, August 28, 1897 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1897 |
| Notes | This shot is looking north up the Taiya River Valley, from about where the Nourse and the Taiya (Dyea) Rivers converge. To the west (left) is the Nourse valley and to the east (right) is the Upper Taiya valley, through which the Chilkoot trail runs. The mountain directly in view is Mount Hoffman, and the Glacier to the right is the Saussure Glacier, so named since 1883. This entire valley was considered the Dyea Valley, Dyea Canyon is about a mile or so up river to the east (right).
PH Coll 35.444 |
| LCTGM | Rivers--Alaska; Canyons--Alaska; Trails & paths--Alaska |
| LCSH | Dyea River (Alaska); Dyea Canyon (Alaska); Chilkoot Trail |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Dyea River |
| Digital Collection | Henry M. Sarvant Photographs
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| Order Number | SAR117 |
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Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | UW22049 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Henry M. Sarvant Photograph Collection. PH Coll 35
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| Repository Collection Guide | To view the finding aid for this collection see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/findaids/docs/photosgraphics/SarvantHenryMPHColl35.xml |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| 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. |
