Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
84.09.034
Accession#:
84.09
Credit Line:
Transferred from the City and Borough of Juneau.
Object Name:
Tongs
Title:
Crucible Tongs (Assay)
Date:
1901
Year Range from:
1900
Year Range to:
1910
Description:
Long slender tongs with rounded shafts (handles) that pinch at one end cross over, then flare to form two—pronged pincher.
Notes:
Found in collections in Last Chance Mining Museum. (Compressor Building). These objects were acquired when city purchased Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. properties in 1974 from AEL&P who had purchased the properties from Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. in 1972.

1986 exhibit "Yellow Brick Road".
Search Terms:
T&E
AJ
Assaying
Foundry
Mill
Mining
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