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| Title | Shipment of gold from Alaska, 1900 |
| Date | 1900 |
| Notes | Caption on image: C&R 193
On verso of image: Gold from Alaska. Eleven strong boxes of gold containing $1, 100, 00 in gold consigned from Nome, Alaska, to the U.S. Assay Office in Seattle in July if 1900. These shipments caused the stampede to Seward Peninsula during which over 25, 000 people landed at Nome on Bering Sea from a fleet of about thirty-six vessels. Alaska's total gold production to Jan. 1, 1927 was $360, 657, 208. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Men--Washington (State)--Seattle; Group portraits |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Gold--Washington (State)--Seattle; United States. Assay Office (Seattle, Wash.); Wagons--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Seattle Photograph Collection
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| Order Number | SEA1630
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| Negative Number | UW4157 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Collection |
| 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 768x512 ppi. 2000. |
