MAKE A MEME View Large Image Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897 (LAROCHE 193).jpeg Photograph Creator Frank La Roche 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 ...
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Keywords: Five prospectors panning for gold in a creek, Alaska, 1897 (LAROCHE 193).jpeg Photograph Creator Frank La Roche 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 1897 Institution University of Washington UWASH-LAROCHE-source accession number laroche 193 PD-old-auto-1923 1936 Information field Order Number LAR214 Klondike Gold Rush Gold mining in Alaska Rivers of Alaska 1897 in Alaska Men at work in Alaska Black and white photographs
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