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English: Dog sled team and driver preparing to cross the Nizina River, ca. 1912   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
John E. Thwaites  (1863–1940)  wikidata:Q46211791
 
Alternative names
John Edward Thwaites
Description American postal worker and photographer
– was employed in Alaska by the US federal government as a postal clerk for the Railway Mail Service during the early part of the 20th century, and he traveled the route from Valdez to Unalaska onboard a wood hulled mailboat delivering mail to the coastal communities; he was also an amateur photographer.
Date of birth/death 1863 Edit this at Wikidata 1940 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Eastwood, Ontario, Canada Mercer Island
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creator QS:P170,Q46211791
Title
English: Dog sled team and driver preparing to cross the Nizina River, ca. 1912
Description
English: Caption on image: Crossing Nizina River, Alaska PH Coll 247.879
The Nizina River starts at the base of the Nizina glacier, in a remote corner of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The Nizina River is called a brown water river, so colored because of suspended fine glacial flour. (Fine glacial flour is a very fine sand/rock/dirt composite that is created as glaciers grind over and through mountains. When the glacier melts, the flour is what remains. The water from the melting glacier picks it up. It is so fine and light that it is held suspended in the water, rather than settling out.) The Nizina River starts out as a lake and then flows over a natural dam as it begins its 200-mile trip to the sea. It eventually merges with the Copper River.
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Dogsledding--Alaska; Dog teams--Alaska; Nizina River (Alaska); Rivers--Alaska; Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve (Alaska); National parks & reserves--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Sled dogs--Alaska--Nizina River; Mushers--Alaska--Nizina River; Sleds--Alaska--Nizina River
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English: United States--Alaska--Nezina River
Date circa 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Accession number
366
Source
English: John E. Thwaites Photographs of Alaska
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The author died in 1940, 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 80 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.

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