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Skagway street scene, 1898
Order an ImageBy 1898, Skagway, Alaska, had a busy business district which sold goods and services to people leaving for the Klondike gold fields.
This photo shows downtown Skagway in 1898. Businesses which can be seen in the photo include drugstores, outfitters, an agency for hiring packers to carry one's supplies along the trail, a hardware store and tinsmith, and several saloons. Two women stand in the middle of the dirt steet, surrounded by passing wagons.
Original inventory title: Broadway, Skagway, 1898
This photo shows downtown Skagway in 1898. Businesses which can be seen in the photo include drugstores, outfitters, an agency for hiring packers to carry one's supplies along the trail, a hardware store and tinsmith, and several saloons. Two women stand in the middle of the dirt steet, surrounded by passing wagons.
Original inventory title: Broadway, Skagway, 1898
ID Number: SHS9768
Date: 1898
Creator(s):
Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950, Photographer
Physical Description: 1 photographic print mounted on cardboard : gelatin, b&w ; 20 x 26 cm.
Credit: MOHAI, SHS9768
Copyright: No Known Copyright
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