William L. Churchill photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1912.

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William L. Churchill photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76946040

The collection includes images of placer mining, hard rock gold mining and related activities during the Klondike gold rush. Some images document mining engineering practices such as brush retaining walls on streams and thawing of frozen ground to accommodate dredging. Places depicted include the Klondike River, Yukon River, Treadwell, Douglas, Skagway, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Allard Bay [Alert Bay, B.C.], Bonanza Creek, Y.T., Dawson, Y.T. Subjects also include totem poles, potlatch, light houses, glaciers, travel by steamships and railroad, and scenes of daily life in the Yukon and Alaska.

1 album (157 photographs) : b&w ; album: 18 x 25 cm.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8180956

Alaska State Library

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Churchill, William

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William L. Churchill was an itinerant engineer who went to the Klondike gold fields from White Plains, New York, which was his permanent home when he was not traveling. He died in 1936. From the description of William L. Churchill photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1912. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 76946040 Epithet: Bookseller to George II.; nephew of Awnsham Churchill British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : a...