Gold miners at work in the Klondike country Canada
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.3
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting gold miners at work in the Klondike country Canada. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Verso A full description of the terriotroy and the process Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: 72-4832 - .Gold miners at work in the Klondike country Canada Copyright 1901 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso there is a long and detailed description of the location and at the bottom Gold miners at work in the Klondike country Canada written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher