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Skagway,AK - Hoonah-Angoon County - April 3, 1898 - Rescuers Digging For Victims After Chilkoot Pass

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Skagway,AK - Hoonah-Angoon County - April 3, 1898 - Rescuers Digging For Victims After Chilkoot Pass
6” with overall size with double-imprinted light-coloured matte of 10-1/2 x 8-1/2”. Focus is overall good. Contrast is moderate. Grayish matte with yellowing along outer edges. There are very minor black spots overall. There is a grayish smudge in lower right corner. Photographer is E.A. Hegg, who was active in Dawson and the Yukon in 1889 (Mautz). This scene shows rescuers digging for victims of the April l3, 1898 Chilkoot Pass avalanche. Noted on image is “Diging [sic] For The Bodies Burried [sic] In The Snow-Slide On Chilkoot Pass, April 3, 1898 and “copyrighted 1989 by E.A. Hegg”. Photo numbered ‘201’ in lower left corner.