Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...
This stereograph depicts miners climbing the section of trail over Chilkoot Pass that was known as the "golden staircase," where steps had been carved out of snow and ice to aid the climbers over the top of the pass. Behind the line of climbers in...
Title from caption. Photograph of Chilkoot Pass with a dusting of snow. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right is Chilkoot Pass used during the gold rush from Skagway to Dawson. It is reliably stated that one could go from bottom to top by...
Title taken from caption. "9191 -- Bound for the Klondike Gold Fields, Chilkoot Pass, Alaska" Indexer's note: A long line of humans can be seen extended along the steep stretch of the Chilkoot Pass. A camp with stacks of supplies, pack...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts miners carrying equipment climbing up the trail over the section of Chilkoot Pass that was known as the "golden staircase," where steps had been carved out of the snow and ice. Behind the climbers is the...
This stereograph depicts three miners and packers climbing the "golden staircase" to the top of Chilkoot Pass during the gold rush, circa 1898. Two men sit on the snow beside the climbers with a dog. One of the climbers gas a sled strapped to his...
Title taken from front. Men with packs ascending summit of Chilkoot Pass on border of Alaska and Canada on the way to gold fields. Photographer's numbers 2111 and 205. Copyright 1898. Photographer: E.A. Hegg. Original photograph size: 6 5/8" x 8...
Shows towns, rivers, mountains, elevations, lakes, glaciers, rivers, and railroads. Relief shown by hill shading, form lines and spot heights. Library copy contains portions of other maps and was cut from larger sheet. Stamped: Alfred H. Brooks,...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Facing always the possibility of fragments breaking off some ice-capped edge and starting avalanches above them the weary army of gold seekers toiled on to...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Raw reality at the upper end of Peterson's Tramway on Chilkoot Pass. Stampeders undergoing some grueling work transporting provisions over the ice-cold summit...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Constantly fighting cold, hardship and fatigue, gold seekers enjoying a well earned rest on the snow-clad summit of Chilkoot Pass, 1898."
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "No place for weaklings here; endure the strain or fall out; that was the law of the trail. Gold seekers ascending the summit of Chilkoot Pass, 1898."
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "The most spectacular scene on the Trail of '98. Yukoners standing the acid test of the wilderness ascending the summit of bleak, forbidding Chilkoot Pass,...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Gold seekers on the trail at Chilkoot Pass, 1898. Note the towering, snow-splashed cliffs enduring like guards at the upper entrance of the pass."
Title from caption. Photograph of the Chilkoot Pass. Narrative in photo album reads: "Chilcoot pass of the gold rush route in '98, a terrible part of the journey."
Title taken from caption. "9196 -- (25) In this view we have ascended about one-fourth of the icy stairway and pause a moment to rest and view the strange, stupendous and impressive panorama which spreads away before us down the trail and...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts gold miners with packs and sleds at Sheep Camp on the Dyea Trail at Chilkoot Pass. The title is printed on the front of the stereograph as "9192--Gold Miners and Pickers on Dyea Trail, Alaska." The photo...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "A view of the jagged, cloud-piercing peaks of Chilkoot Pass unrelieved by tree or shrub. Gold seekers surging upward and onward with renewed energy to the...