File:Manning a sluice at Bonanza Creek, ca 1898 (MOHAI 7352).jpg

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English: Manning a sluice at Bonanza Creek, ca. 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Studio of Eric A. Hegg  (fl. 1897–1930)  wikidata:Q5385972
 
Studio of Eric A. Hegg
Alternative names
E.A. Hegg; E. A. Hegg
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 18 September 1867 / 17 September 1867 / 1868 Edit this at Wikidata 13 December 1947 / 13 December 1948 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bollnäs San Diego
Work period 1897 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
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Title
English: Manning a sluice at Bonanza Creek, ca. 1898
Description
English:

Miners used water running through sluice boxes to wash the gold out of the pay dirt. Lumber for the sluice boxes was cut from nearby hills and finished in a nearby sawmill. As the hills were cleared, lumber became even more expensive. A typical two-man sluice was fifty feet long, ten inches tall, and twelve to fourteen inches across, with lengthwise riffles built into the bottom. This photo of four men working on a sluice was taken by Hegg & Co. at Bonanza Creek, Yukon Territory, probably in 1898 or 1899. The name of the claim, No. 44 below on Bonanza, means that this was the 44th claim below the original strike at Bonanza Creek.

Original title: No. 44 below on Bonanza

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners; Gold mining; Gold rushes; Prospecting equipment & supplies; Sluices
Depicted place
English: Bonanza Creek (Yukon); Klondike River Region (Yukon)
Date circa 1898
date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 16 cm (6.2 in); width: 20 cm (7.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
7352
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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