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| Title | Alaska Gastineau Mining Company, Thane, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Thane, Alaska
PH Coll 247.445 |
| Contextual Notes | Named in 1914 for Bartlett L. Thane, 1878-1927, general manager of the Alaska Gastineau Mining Co. which had its mill here. Bartlett Thane was born in California and went to Alaska in 1897. The name "Sheep Creek" which was the original miners' name for the town, was published by USC&GS in the 1901 Coast Pilot but was later changed to "Thane" by BGN. The town was founded in 1881 as a result of mining operations in the vicinity. Since World War II the population has steadily declined with the curtailment of mining activities. It is now a residential area |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Alaska Gastineau Mining Company (Juneau, Alaska)--Facililties--Alaska--Thane; Mining--Alaska--Thane; Labor housing--Alaska--Thane; Gastineau Channel (Alaska) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Thane |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW232 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.445 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | John E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
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| 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. 2003. |
