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File:Mining claim No 1 at Dry Creek, Alaska, ca 1901 (HEGG 720).jpeg

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English: Mining claim No. 1 at Dry Creek, Alaska, ca. 1901.   (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: Mining claim No. 1 at Dry Creek, Alaska, ca. 1901.
Description
English: Probably Dry Creek that flows into the Snake River at Nome. Shows five men and a woman with gold pan, pickaxes and rocker . Caption on image: "No. 1 Dry Creek" Original image in Hegg Album 28, page 24 . Original photograph by Eric A. Hegg 1808; copied by Webster and Stevens 285.A Nome Gold Rush.
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Gold miners--Alaska--Dry Creek; Gold mining--Alaska--Dry Creek; Mining claims--Alaska--Dry Creek; Axes--Alaska--Dry Creek; Sluices--Alaska--Dry Creek
  • Subjects (LCSH): Alaska--Gold discoveries
Depicted place
English: United States--Alaska--Dry Creek
Date circa 1901
date QS:P571,+1901-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Accession number
720
Source
English: Eric A. Hegg Photographs
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The author died in 1948, 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 75 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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HEG335

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