File:Klondikers sailing down Lake Bennett, May 30, 1898 (MOHAI 7362).jpg

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English: Klondikers sailing down Lake Bennett, May 30, 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Eric A. Hegg  (fl. 1897–1930)  wikidata:Q5385972
 
Eric A. Hegg
Alternative names
E.A. Hegg; E. A. Hegg
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 18 September 1867 / 17 September 1867 / 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 13 December 1947 / 13 December 1948 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bollnäs San Diego
Work period 1897 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q5385972
Title
English: Klondikers sailing down Lake Bennett, May 30, 1898
Description
English: In the spring of 1898, the air at Bennett was filled with the sound of hammering and sawing as gold seekers cut trees and built boats to head downstream. The ice on Lake Bennett broke up on May 29, 1898. Within a week, over 1,000 boats started across the lake and down the Yukon River to the Klondike gold fields.

This photo by Eric Hegg shows the waterfront at Lake Bennett on the day after the ice broke and gold seekers started downstream. Almost all of the trees on the hillsides have been cut for shelter, fuel, and boatbuilding.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Boats; Camps; Gold rushes; Waterfronts
Depicted place
English: Bennett Lake (Yukon)
Date Taken on 30 May 1898
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 12 cm (4.7 in); width: 15 cm (5.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,12U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,15U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
7362
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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The author died in 1948, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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