MAKE A MEME View Large Image Reindeer on the deck of the bark SEMINOLE, Seattle, Washington, March 1898 (KIEHL 247).jpeg Photograph Creator H Ambrose Kiehl In the late 1880's and 1890's the Seminole was a bark working on the West Coast active in the lumber trade In ...
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Keywords: Reindeer on the deck of the bark SEMINOLE, Seattle, Washington, March 1898 (KIEHL 247).jpeg Photograph Creator H Ambrose Kiehl In the late 1880's and 1890's the Seminole was a bark working on the West Coast active in the lumber trade In 1897-8 Sheldon Jackson the well-known Presbyterian missionary from Alaska lobbyed the U S government to finance a relief expedition of a herd of caribou to the Klondike to alleviate fears of an impending famine in the region becuase of the flood of prospectors expected to arrive in the area due to the gold rush This sailing ship was used to transport the reindeer north to Alaska even though by the time the herd reached Seattle for transport the urgent need to supply food for the Alaska miners was gone Text from Kiehl log Reindeer On verso of image On board the Bark Seminole Lena Jim Laura Miriam I on top of the hay Text from Kiehl log Bark Seminole March 1898 Album 2 100 Subjects LCSH Reindeer--Washington State --Seattle; Seminole Ship ; Men--Washington State --Seattle depicted place Seattle Washington 1898-03 Institution University of Washington UWASH-KIEHL-source accession number kiehl 247 PD-old-auto-1923 1942 Information field Order Number KHL232 Rangifer tarandus Boats Pens enclosures
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