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| Title | Three men standing in front of the Felitz Brother's store, Nome, ca. 1899 |
| Photographer | Warner, Arthur Churchill, 1864-1943 |
| Date | ca. 1899 |
| Notes | Gold was discovered on the Nome beaches in the Summer of 1899. By Spring of 1900, thousands had arrived for the gold rush.
Hugo Felitz was born May 1866 in Oregon. Before moving to Alaska in 1898, he and his family were living in Tacoma. In 1900, Hugo and his wife Josie, with their four children were living in Skagway, and Hugo worked as a merchant. [Source: U.S. Census]
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Filed in Alaska series. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | General stores--Alaska--Nome; Tents--Alaska--Nome |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Nome (Alaska) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Nome |
| Digital Collection | Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs
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| Order Number | WAR0407 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Arthur Churchill Warner Photograph Collection. PH Coll 273 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin ; b/w |
| 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. 2004. |
