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English: Klondikers shooting White Horse Rapids, 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Eric A. Hegg  (1867–1947)  wikidata:Q5385972
 
Eric A. Hegg
Alternative names
E.A. Hegg; E. A. Hegg
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 18 September 1867 Edit this at Wikidata 1948
Location of birth/death Bollnäs San Diego
Work period 1897 Edit this at Wikidata–1930 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q5385972
Title
English: Klondikers shooting White Horse Rapids, 1898
Description
English:

Two miles below Miles Canyon, gold seekers on the Yukon River had to navigate through White Horse Rapids. Those who could afford it hired a pilot or portaged their goods around the rapids and used ropes to guide their empty boats through the dangerous rapids. Some boats broke up among the rocks and whirlpools; some took on so much water that they sank. Numerous people were injured or lost their lives. This 1898 photo by Eric Hegg shows a boatload of gold seekers and their goods running White Horse Rapids on the Yukon River. Freight and passengers generally got soaked.

Original title: Whitehorse rapids

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold rushes; Rapids; Rivers; Shooting rapids
Depicted place
English: White Horse Rapids (Yukon); Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska)
Date 1898
date QS:P571,+1898-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 17 cm (6.6 in); width: 22 cm (8.6 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,17U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,22U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
7231
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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