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English: People lined up outside the post office in Dyea, waiting to pick up mail, ca. 1898   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Arthur Churchill Warner  (1864–1943)  wikidata:Q56170486
 
Arthur Churchill Warner
Alternative names
A.C. Warner
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 1864 Edit this at Wikidata 1943 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Granby Seattle
Work location
Alaska (1898–1900); Yukon (1898–1900); Seattle Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q56170486
Title
English: People lined up outside the post office in Dyea, waiting to pick up mail, ca. 1898
Description
English: After gold was discovered in the Yukon Territory, thousands of people left for the Klondike to join in the gold rush in the Summer of <a class="body_link_11" href="/cdm/search/collection/warner/field/descri/searchterm/1897.1897.<vr>
For those now living so far from home, getting to the gold fields may have seemed easy compared to getting their mail. Both the Canadian and the U.S. government were caught off guard by the speed and volume of the stampede. During the summer, mail could be carried by boat along the Yukon from St. Michael's, Alaska, but winter mail was brought up from Skagway, across the pass and into Dawson by dog sled. First class mail had the best chance of getting through, especially during winter months. Everything else was left for summer steamships. [Source: National Postal Museum web site, http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/almostamericans.htm]

Warner 100

Filed in Alaska series.
  • Subjects (LCTGM): Post offices--Alaska--Dyea; Queues--Alaska--Dyea
Depicted place Dyea, Alaska
Date circa 1899
date QS:P571,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: b&w
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
University of Washington: Special Collections
Accession number
417
Source
English: Arthur Churchill Warner Photographs Collection
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The author died in 1943, 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 80 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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WAR0402

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