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Office area and laboratory in U.S. Assay Office, circa 1903
Order an ImageGold must be assayed in order to determine its purity, and therefore its value. After extensive lobbying by Seattle businessmen, the United States government opened an assay office in Seattle in July 1898. Many miners sold their gold to the government at the assay office which sent it to the Philadelphia mint for making gold coins.
This photo shows the interior of the U.S. Assay Office on Ninth Avenue in Seattle. An assayer, possibly Lee H. McCloy, sits at a table holding two pan balances used for weighing gold. In the right foreground are the ovens, crucibles, ingot molds, and tools used in the assay process.
Handwritten on verso: Lomen Bros. photo, Nome, Alaska
SHS category: Alaska - Gold Rush
This photo shows the interior of the U.S. Assay Office on Ninth Avenue in Seattle. An assayer, possibly Lee H. McCloy, sits at a table holding two pan balances used for weighing gold. In the right foreground are the ovens, crucibles, ingot molds, and tools used in the assay process.
Handwritten on verso: Lomen Bros. photo, Nome, Alaska
SHS category: Alaska - Gold Rush
ID Number: SHS1230
Date: Circa 1903
Creator(s):
Lomen Bros., Photographer
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm.
Credit: MOHAI, SHS1230
Copyright: No Known Copyright
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