Sujet

Salmon-drying platforms on the Yucon River, Alaska, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Salmon-drying platforms on the Yucon River, Alaska, 1890. 'Lord Lonsdale's Travels in Arctic North America. The enterprising and courageous performance of the Earl of Lonsdale in travelling northward during many months of the year 1888, from the Saskatchewan River of the Great Western Territory of Canada to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and thence crossing Alaska westward to the North Pacific...has excited much attention. We are favoured by Lord Lonsdale with an exact account of his journeys...Few people, except some officers of the Hudson Bay Company and of the Alaska Fur Company, have made acquaintance with those desolate regions..."With considerable difficulty, we reached Naushagak on Dec. 14, and were hospitably entertained by Mr. Clarke, agent for the Alaska Company. We did not leave here until Jan. 28, on account of the prevalence of storms and the want of dogs. Then we started going down the river, which is at one place six miles wide, divided by a small island. It is noted for its extraordinary yield of fish. In the summer as many as 100,000 cases of canned salmon, each case holding about six dozen cans, are filled by the fish of this river. The Illustration shows about 50,000 salmon drying on the beach, for winter provision".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A51_072

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Licence

Droits gérés

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7,6Mo (580,1Ko) / 16,4cm x 11,7cm / 1942 x 1376 (300dpi)

Mots clés

river North America food fish arts art British geography fishes Alaska Arctic salmon seafood rack racks store stores location century Britain newspapers press print drying B&W curing dried fish engraved engraving United States of America aquatic life 19th century Arctic Circle black & white black and white B W drying rack nineteenth century ray-finned fish The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN Yukon River newspaper food supply Unknown Earl of William Lonsdale William Henry 19th-century The Illustrated London News William Henry Gilder Gilder William Gilder Hugh Cecil Lowther 5th Earl of Lonsdale Earl of Lonsdale Hugh Lowther Lowther Hugh Cecil Lord Lonsdale Colonel Gilder