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Research Resources

Do you need help writing your report on Seattle or the Klondike Gold Rush? Are you doing a History Day project on the gold rush? These are some of the web-based resources our staff has found useful for their programs, photographs, and displays.

These are just a few of the many available on the internet. Using various search engines should find additional internet sites not listed here.

 

 

Historylink http://www.historylink.org/

Museum of History and Industry http://seattlehistory.org/

Washington State History Museum http://www.wshs.org/

University of Washington - Special Collections http://content.lib.washington.edu/

Explore North http://www.explorenorth.com/index.html

 

U.S. National Postal Museum http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/gold/discovery.html

Dawson Historical Complex National Historic Site of Canada http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/yt/dawson/index_e.asp

The Yukon Photgraphers of the Gold Rush Era http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Goldrushphoto/02english/02intro.html

Dance Hall  

Did You Know?
While the Yukon stampeders waited in Seattle for passage north a cottage industry of entertainment kept the town moving 24 hours a day.

Last Updated: September 22, 2006 at 18:58 EST