Map of Alaska and portions of the Northwest Territory, showing routes to the gold fields / Poole Bros
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- Created Date
- 1897
- Description
Includes addresses of travel agents and 1 inset map: Key map showing routes to Alaska.; Includes ancillary descriptive text and maps: Map of Great Northern Railway Coast Lines and connections for Alaska, copyrighted, 1896, by F.L. Whitney -- Great Northern Railway and connections.
This is a promotional map for The Great Northern Railway, seeking customers ready to join the Klondike Gold Rush. The map uses large red letters to label numerous fields of gold, oil and coal. Red, dashed lines suggest easy access to these areas via steamship and trains when in fact, passage to these interior lands was difficult. Few maps of the Yukon and Alaska existed when the gold rush hit. Many companies, such as the Poole Brothers of Chicago who prepared this map for the Great Northern Railway Company, rushed to create maps to meet demand. Accuracy and detail were often of little concern. Companies like the Great Northern Railway stood to make a fortune transporting Yukon-bound gold seekers. Such a map would be useless to a prospector. -ARC-
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1:4,400,000
- Creator
Poole Brothers
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Poole Brothers
- Subjects
- Gold mines and mining -- Alaska -- Maps
Gold mines and mining -- Yukon -- Maps
Gold mines and mining -- Northwest Territories -- Maps
Alaska -- Gold discoveries -- Maps
Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
Yukon -- Gold discoveries -- Maps
Northwest Territories -- Gold discoveries -- Maps - Type
- image
- Language
- English
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Poole Brothers. Map of Alaska and portions of the Northwest Territory, showing routes to the gold fields / Poole Bros. 1897. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/6774. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Poole Brothers, (1897) Map of Alaska and portions of the Northwest Territory, showing routes to the gold fields / Poole Bros. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/6774
- MLA citation style
- Poole Brothers. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/6774>.