Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.
Left to right Mrs. F. W. Herms (Emily), Dr. F. W. Herms Sr. and an unidentified man. They are standing in the Assay Office of the American Bank of Alaska (Iditarod, Alaska) in front of $125,000.00 of gold bricks.
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.
Title taken from front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.
Title taken from caption. "15 oz of Tolovana Dust, 1917." Indexer's note - Jewelry cases or small boxes of various sizes and shapes are displayed. "Tolovana dust" could possibly be gold flakes seen here on a saucer, and covered by a drinking...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
Full title:
Suulutaarculaallret / iitaruam igautellra kass'acetun aurralriim mumigtellra yugcetun = The gold seekers /written in English by Irene Reed ; translated into Central Yup'ik by Joseph Coolidge.
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Bethel, Alaska...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of a church and belfry near Lake Bennett. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right an abandoned church of the gold rush days standing all by itself near Lake Bennet where miners stopped for some rest in their...
Title from verso. Image shows a young woman seated by gold mining equipment and holding a pan full of gold nuggets, smiling. Behind her a pile of tailings is visible and next to her appears to be a sluice box. Photo may have been taken...
Title taken from front. Large gold nugget found by Pioneer Mining Company at Discovery claim on Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, worth $3276.00 and weighing 182 ounces. Sept. 8, 1903. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from caption. "11501 -- (8) At the time of the breaking up of the ice, the Alaskan days are already long, and the continued rays of the sun speedily reduce the blocks of stranded ice on the shores to their lowest terms. Within a...