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English: Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Frank La Roche  (1853–1934)  wikidata:Q26202817
 
Alternative names
Frank La Roche, Sr.
Description American photographer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 1934 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia Sedro-Woolley
Work location
Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q26202817
Title
English: Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897.
Description
English: Caption on image: "Washing out gold" "Washing out gold. This picture shows a group of miners in the act of "washing out" gold, as in the days of '49. The camp is but temporary and work not yet begun in dead earnest. The men are testing the sand and gravel deposit along the edge of the stream in the hope of striking "pay dirt". In the bottom of the pan settles the gravel, and with it the grains of yellow metal so anxiously sought. It is from this method of mining, so popular in the early California days, that the expression "panned out" arose, and from which so many fortunes are made by men whose outfits cost so little." (Frank La Roche, En Route to the Klondike, 1898) Klondike Gold Rush.
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold mining--Alaska; Gold miners--Alaska; Rivers--Alaska
  • Subjects (LCSH): Alaska--Gold discoveries
Depicted place Alaska
Date 1897
date QS:P571,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Accession number
193
Source
English: Frank La Roche Photographs
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LAR214

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