Summit of White Pass Under Two Flags

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:509464
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
State: Yukon (YT)
Country: Canada
Publisher: Albertype Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
The above is a photograph of White Pass the international boundary line between the United States and Canada at the summit (2800 feet elevation). During the years 1897-8 over 20,000 prospectors passed this spot on foot in a mad endeavor to be the first to put pick into the groun covering the greatest deposit of virgin gold in the history of the world. The summit is 21 miles from Skagway and is visited yearly by thousands of tourists to whom a special train is given for this purpose.

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