File:Gold bricks in assay office, ca 1898 (MOHAI 6444).jpg
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[edit]English: Gold bricks in assay office, ca. 1898 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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creator QS:P170,Q144339 |
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Title |
English: Gold bricks in assay office, ca. 1898 |
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Description |
English: When gold started arriving in Seattle from the Klondike in 1897, the closest assay office was in San Francisco. In 1898, the U.S. Mint opened an assay office in Seattle to buy gold and to certify its purity. This photo, probably taken in 1898, shows gold ingots in the U.S. Assay Office in Seattle. The office handled more than $15 million worth of gold in its first fourteen months of operation. Inscribed on photo: Copyrighted 1900 by G.E. Adams Seattle.
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Depicted place |
English: Seattle (Wash.) |
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Date |
circa 1898 date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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English: 1 glass negative: b&w |
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Dimensions |
height: 6.5 in (16.5 cm); width: 8.5 in (21.5 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,6.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,8.5U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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English: Museum of History and Industry |
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Credit Line InfoField | Anders Beer Wilse Photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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