Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
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Title taken from front. Miners standing in front of slag heap at Alta Mining Company operation at Otter Creek on Third Beach Line, Nome, Alaska, with tent at left. May 1908. Photographer: Goetze.
Verso: Wedding party - John Brynteson (seated in lg chair) - (3 Lucky Swedes, Nome) Accompanying letter: Enclosed in a negative and print of the wedding party of John Brynteson, one of the "3 Lucky Swedes" of Nome fame. The marriage (1902)...
Title from image. Notes: GC: Spring 1898 clearly shows "Grease Trail" in foreground. Looking down at scales, Webster & Stevens stamp on back. View of scales and men from above; line of men on right moving up the Chilkoot Pass.