Photographs are colour images of a street in the Klondike gold fields.
Caption right: 1332. The Principle Street of Gold Bottom, The Klondike, Alaska. Copyrighted, 1905, by T.W. Ingersoll. The image is hand coloured.
Caption verso: THE PRINCIPLE STREET OF GOLD BOTTOM, THE KLONDIKE, ALASKA. The Klondike has fulfilled all the big promises which it held out int he last year the last century. Thousands upon thousands of people have gone there to grow rich and hundred have returned with gold enough upon their incomes, and still the Klondike is yielding enormous quantities of the precious metal every year Only the gold is no longer to be scooped up from the bottom of Bonanza Creek or Eldorado Creek, but societies with larger capital and good mining engineers can still reap enormous harvest thoughout this region. According to an official estimation by the Geological Survey of Canada, the gold fields of the Klondike extend over nearly 2,000 square miles, and there is still gold to the amount of about $100,000,000 waiting to be taken. The gold district is bounded by the Yukon in the west, by the Klondike in the north, by Flat Creek in the east and by Indian River in the south. All the rivers and creeks contain gold and many a small creek has not even been examined.