May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Accession Number: 96-61 a-k
Made: New York
Description: cardboard; printed; ink; wood; metal; paint
Title: Horsman's Game of Klondike
Descriptive Narrative: A board game, "Horsman's Game of the Klondike", consisting of a...
Close-up view of prospectors, dogs, shelters, and stacks of gear in area of scales; in the background are people climbing to and returning from the summit Photographer's number 13
Description of community from 1932 report: "Hyder is entirely a mining town whose growth depends upon the restoration of the value of silver. Its population is made up of about 30 families, children, and the remainder consists of prospectors;...
Eight students pose along the fence outside the McCarthy School; according to the teacher's report in the Historical Record, McCarthy "is an outfitting point for miners, hunters, trappers, and prospectors. It started as an outgrowth of the...
Group of men, a couple of whom have backpacks and walking sticks, gather around a wooden stand holding a book or ledger; wooden building on left and barrel on stand at right
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Children frequently accompanied their parents on the trail to the Yukon. Prospectors passing through Pleasant Valley, 1898." A dog and a boy pull a sled,...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Prospectors crossing a portage near Pleasant Camp, 1898. Here and there gnarled and twisted foliage has driven its tenuous roots into the scarred face of the...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Prospectors enroute to the Yukon climbing Jacob's Ladder, a portage on the trail in the canyon near Sheep Camp, 1898."
Includes tables of distances and text describing gold districts. Relief shown by hachures. Cover title: The Iditarod and Kuskokwim: the prospector's opportunity. "Compiled from reliable prospectors' data, government surveys and personal...
Pilz grubstaked prospectors Richard Harris and Joseph Juneau to look for gold in Silverbow Basin; their discovery led to the settling of Juneau Note: original is in Wickersham, MS 107-67-15
Prospectors and piles of gear amassed at base of pass, with a line of packers heading to the summit along the snow-packed trail Photographer's number 96