File:Two miners inside of cabin sampling dirt for gold using mining pan, Yukon Territory, ca 1898 (MEED 61).jpg

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English: Two miners inside of cabin sampling dirt for gold using mining pan, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
English: Cantwell, George G.
Title
English: Two miners inside of cabin sampling dirt for gold using mining pan, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898
Description
English: Caption on image: "Miner's cabin"

Identical to Hegg 3089.

PH Coll 246.61

[Meed journal: "Typical miner's cabin in the Klondike. One man is seen kneeling on the floor with a gold pan containing a test sample of dirt from underground. The square bucket contains melted snow i.e. winter water. His partner on the peg-leg stool is watching for the result which will guide the direction of the paystreak and this will be followed by thawing and digging. The chair is of birchwood, the upholstery - sacking. Two sleeping bunks one above the other against the wall. A pair of patched workpants hangs to the let of the stove. Note the trim order of everything. The books on the shelf, the cooking utensils, the neat pile of wood, and the can of sourdough for raising bread. Sacks and mitts on the line. The log beam and the ceiling poles overhead indicate the construction of the roof which is covered first with moss and then a layer of earth. A pictorial calendar on the wall is the only ornamentation. The motto for everything is "utility"."].

Klondike Gold Rush.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners--Yukon; Gold mining--Yukon; Log cabins--Yukon
  • Subjects (LCSH): Yukon--Gold discoveries
Depicted place Yukon
Date circa 1898
date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
61
Source
English: William E. Meed Collection
Permission
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Public domain
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.
Order Number
InfoField
MEE205

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