Mining with "long toms" on the beach at Nome, Alaska [graphic]. [ca. 1903]

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Mining with "long toms" on the beach at Nome, Alaska [graphic]. [ca. 1903]

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Depicts busy scene: long toms along the beach, with buildings and wharves in background; miners panning and digging.

1 photographic print : b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.

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Lomen Bros.

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The Lomen family was well known in Alaska for an entreprenurial spirit. Their interests varied from reindeer herding to law practice. The five Lomen brothers, Carl Joys, Alfred Julian, Harry, George, and Ralph helped create a reindeer industry, outfitted the Norwegian explorer Amundsen and participated in the birth of bush aviation in Alaska. Judge G.J. Lomen of St. Paul, Minnesota, moved to Nome after vacationing with a son, Carl, in the early 1900's. In 1903, they were joined by his wife, Juli...