File:Scene on the approach to Chilkoot Pass depicting aftermath of the April 3, 1898 snowslide, Alaska (MEED 3).jpg

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English: Scene on the approach to Chilkoot Pass depicting aftermath of the April 3, 1898 snowslide, Alaska.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Goetzman, H. J.
Title
English: Scene on the approach to Chilkoot Pass depicting aftermath of the April 3, 1898 snowslide, Alaska.
Description
English: Caption on image: "Approaching Chilkoot Pass, Spring 1898; En route to Klondike Gold Fields"

Part of Goetzman series entitled: En route to the Klondike Gold Fields"

Image is identical to Hegg 79 which is captioned: "Scenes of snow slide on Chilkoot Pass April 3rd 1898"

"[Aftermath of the April 3, 1898 avalanche between Sheep Camp and Chilkoot summit]. Sixty-three bodies were dug out from the snow." (Murray Morgan, One Man's Gold Rush, p. 60)

PH Coll 246.5

Klondike Gold Rush.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Avalanches--Alaska--Chilkoot Pass
  • Subjects (LCSH): Chilkoot Pass (Alaska); Mountain passes--Alaska
Depicted place Chilkoot Trail
Date Taken on 3 April 1898
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
3
Source
English: William E. Meed Collection
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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.
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MEE142

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