Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2006.38.032
Accession#:
2006.38
Credit Line:
Donated by Robert J. Freeman.
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Title:
Alaska Treadwell gold mining plant from height back of hill Douglas Island Alaska
Studio:
Harrison Bros.
Place:
Douglas
Date:
1891
Year Range from:
1891
Description:
Harrison Bros cabinet card photo of Treadwell, Mill.
Structures and broken—up land occupy the bottom half of the image. A man stands towards the bottom in the center. Water and the opposite shore are in the background.
Written in pencil around the bottom edge of the image and then bending up to the proper left edge, "Alaska Treadwell gold mining plant from height back of his, Douglas Island, Alaska."
On the back: "Harrison Bros. Juneau Alaska," stamp with star decoration.
Structures and broken—up land occupy the bottom half of the image. A man stands towards the bottom in the center. Water and the opposite shore are in the background.
Written in pencil around the bottom edge of the image and then bending up to the proper left edge, "Alaska Treadwell gold mining plant from height back of his, Douglas Island, Alaska."
On the back: "Harrison Bros. Juneau Alaska," stamp with star decoration.
Notes:
Big building near pit is 120 stamp mill. Squarish small building near pit with vertical boards in there #1 hoist, built in 1895. Big dead tree in center is now where the gate to view the Glory Hole is located. Note camera cases next to man standing in foreground (per Jim Geraghty)
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