File:Four men digging a tunnel in a gold mine at Eldorado, ca 1900 (MOHAI 7020).jpg

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English: Four men digging a tunnel in a gold mine at Eldorado, ca. 1900   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Four men digging a tunnel in a gold mine at Eldorado, ca. 1900
Description
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In Alaska and the Yukon, placer gold was found along ancient stream beds, some of which were twelve to forty feet underground at bedrock. The gold was frozen in the dirt or gravel. Miners chopped away at the frozen earth with picks or tried to thaw it with fires or steam machines. They "drifted" all winter, digging tunnels in the direction that seemed most promising for gold. This photo, taken around 1900 by Asahel Curtis, shows a four miners digging a tunnel at Eldorado, Yukon Territory.

Original photograph: ca. 1900. Copied after 1975 by the Museum of History and Industry.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners; Gold mining; Gold rushes; Prospecting equipment & supplies
Depicted place
English: Klondike River Region (Yukon)
Date circa 1900
date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 negative: safety film, b&w
Dimensions height: 2 in (50.8 mm); width: 2.5 in (63.5 mm)
dimensions QS:P2048,2U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,2.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
7020
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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