Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2014.01.047
Accession#:
2014.01
Credit Line:
Transferred from the Alaska State Museum.
Object Name:
Cask
Title:
Wooden Cask
Year Range from:
1890
Year Range to:
1940
Description:
Wooden cask made of thirteen wooden slats. Barrel has a steel ring holding the wood slats together both at the top and at the bottom. Two metal wires also wrap the barrel and are attached into the wood slats with meal staples. Black stamped text on side of barrel.
Notes:
The collection is assumed to have been collection from the old AJ Generator Shed in the Last Chance Basin. The collection was on long term loan to the Alaska State Museum from the 1960—1970s until December 2013 when the Alaska State Museum dismantled their mining.
Search Terms:
Mining
Mine
Last Chance Basin
Last Chance Gold Mining Co.
AJ
Mine
Last Chance Basin
Last Chance Gold Mining Co.
AJ
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