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English: Million dollars in gold at U.S. Assay Office, Seattle, ca. 1899   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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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: Million dollars in gold at U.S. Assay Office, Seattle, ca. 1899
Description
English:

The United States monetary system used to be on the gold standard. People used gold coins, as well as paper currency which was backed by gold. When gold started arriving in Seattle from the Klondike in 1898, the government opened an assay office to buy gold and to certify its purity.

Caption on image: Wilse. Caption by MOHAI staff.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Assaying--Washington (State)--Seattle; Government facilities--Washington (State)--Seattle; Gold rushes--Alaska
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date circa 1899
date QS:P571,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 glass negative: b&w; sulfiding, discolored yellow
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 10 in (25.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,10U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
353
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 B. Wilse Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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