File:Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897 (LAROCHE 193).jpeg
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[edit]English: Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897.
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English: Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897. |
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English: Caption on image: "Washing out gold" "Washing out gold. This picture shows a group of miners in the act of "washing out" gold, as in the days of '49. The camp is but temporary and work not yet begun in dead earnest. The men are testing the sand and gravel deposit along the edge of the stream in the hope of striking "pay dirt". In the bottom of the pan settles the gravel, and with it the grains of yellow metal so anxiously sought. It is from this method of mining, so popular in the early California days, that the expression "panned out" arose, and from which so many fortunes are made by men whose outfits cost so little." (Frank La Roche, En Route to the Klondike, 1898) Klondike Gold Rush.
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Depicted place | Alaska | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1897 date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Frank La Roche Photographs |
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Order Number InfoField | LAR214 |
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