Prospector Gallery

Chilkoot Pass during the Alaska/Klondike Gold Rush

Alaska/Klondike prospectors climbing to the summit of the Chilkoot Pass, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Prospectors nearing summit of the Chilkoot Pass on their way to the Klondyke gold fields during the Alaska Gold Rush, 1897.
Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century photograph

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Prospectors risking the White Horse Rapids of the Yukon River going to the Klondike gold rush 1898.
Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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