File:Tramway hauling freight at Miles Canyon landing on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, ca 1899 (MEED 210).jpg

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English: Tramway hauling freight at Miles Canyon landing on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
H. C. Barley  (–1909)  wikidata:Q88891281
 
Alternative names
Harry C. Barley; Harrie C. Barley
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 22 November 1909 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death San Francisco
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q88891281
Title
English: Tramway hauling freight at Miles Canyon landing on the Yukon River, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.
Description
English: Caption on image: "Miles Canyon Landing"

The Canyon and White Horse Rapids Tramway Company was used for portaging around the Whitehorse Rapids on the Yukon River. Shows piles of goods on shore and unidentified steamboat in background.

PH Coll 246.124

[Meed journal: "Miles Canyon Landing. Upper end of White Horse and Miles Canyon tramway [sic]. Goods were unloaded here from Lake Bennett steamboats and then conveyed over the horse drawn log-tramway around the Canyon and the White Horse Rapids. From there on they were taken down the Yukon by other steamboats. The scow or barge to the right was used to transport animals."].

Klondike Gold Rush.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Horse railroads--Yukon--Miles Canyon; Portages-Yukon--Miles Canyon
  • Subjects (LCSH): Canyon and White Horse Rapids Tramway Company (Yukon); Freight and freightage--Yukon--Miles Canyon; Scows--Yukon--Miles Canyon
Depicted place Miles Canyon
Date circa 1899
date QS:P571,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
210
Source
English: William E. Meed Collection
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Public domain

The author died in 1909, 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 100 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.

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MEE198

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