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English: Gold bricks in assay office, ca. 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Anders Beer Wilse  (1865–1949)  wikidata:Q144339
 
Anders Beer Wilse
Description Norwegian photographer
father of Robert Charles Wilse
Date of birth/death 12 June 1865 Edit this at Wikidata 21 February 1949 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Flekkefjord Municipality Oslo
Work period 1900–49
Work location
Kristiania (Oslo), Kragerø, Seattle
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q144339
Title
English: Gold bricks in assay office, ca. 1898
Description
English:

When gold started arriving in Seattle from the Klondike in 1897, the closest assay office was in San Francisco. In 1898, the U.S. Mint opened an assay office in Seattle to buy gold and to certify its purity. This photo, probably taken in 1898, shows gold ingots in the U.S. Assay Office in Seattle. The office handled more than $15 million worth of gold in its first fourteen months of operation.

Inscribed on photo: Copyrighted 1900 by G.E. Adams Seattle.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold; Gold rushes
Depicted place
English: Seattle (Wash.)
Date circa 1898
date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 glass negative: b&w
Dimensions height: 6.5 in (16.5 cm); width: 8.5 in (21.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,6.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,8.5U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
6444
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain

The author died in 1949, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.

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.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
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Anders Beer Wilse Photographs, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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