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| Title | Dog sledders ("Mushers"), five men in arctic dress, ca. 1910 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1910 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Mushers, Alaska
PH Coll 247.343 |
| Contextual Notes | Someone who drives, or "mushes", a dog team is known as a musher. The word probably comes from the French word "marcher", which means "to walk".
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Fur garments; Clothing & dress--Alaska; Men--Alaska |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Mushers--Clothing--Alaska; Cold weather clothing--Alaska |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW178 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.343 |
| 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. |
