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...
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...
Title taken from caption. "9198 -- (22) The city of 'Sheep Camp' was the metropolis of the Dyea trail. Those who have never visited a booming frontier mining camp will find it difficult to appreciate the rapidity with which such camps acquire a...
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...
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...
Title taken from caption. View of two men (August E. Miller and probably A.F. "Gus" Nyman) sitting on a stair, one holding a dog, Kodiak, Alaska. Caption also says: "Miller and Gus's dog on the porch of our home at Kodiak." Photo taken during...
Title taken from image. A few people, including a group of children, are on the boardwalk. A stair in foreground. Signs in image: Hot Springs Restaurant, Bakery, Tenakee Supply Store, General Merchandise Houses & Cottages for rent.