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| Photo Number | PH001_0827 |
| Title on Object | On the White Pass and Yukon; Cut through Snowslide March 28, 1904 |
| Notes | Eight workers with shovels stand on a steep snow cliff made by the clearing of a railway pass. Snowplow tracks are prominent in the foreground and then trail off in the distance around the corner of a steep snow cliff. Mountains blanketed with snow can be seen in the distance. |
| Notes on Back | slide~14 miles from Skagway |
| Subject | Railroads
Railroad snowplow locomotives
Railroad construction & maintenance
Railroad ice crossings
Blizzards
Railroad tracks
Employees
Landscape
Snow
Mountains
Shovels
White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)
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| Place | Alaska
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| Genre | Outdoor portrait
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| Photographer | Andrews, Clarence Leroy
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| Date of Photo | 1904-03-28 |
| Rights | This image is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Repository | University of Oregon Libraries - Special Collections and University Archives |
| Collection Title | Andrews (Clarence L.) Photographs
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| Collection Identifier | PH001 |
| Collection Guide | http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv44135 |
| Source Dimensions | 6.5 X 8.5 inches |
| Source format | silver gelatin print |
| Source Condition | slight yellowing and silver mirroring |
| Image (File) Size | 247,746 bytes |
| Image Width | 668 pixels |
| Image Height | 875 pixels |
| Color Space | 24 bit -- RGB -- sRGB IEC61966-2.1 |
| Capture Date | 2003-10-06 |
| Capture Method | Scanned in transmissive mode with Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX PowerLook III flatbed scanner (Scanner B). Levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 67 - 1.00 - 221 prior to capture. |
| Resolution | 125 DPI |
| Processing History | Scanned image enters Photoshop with negative polarity and have a reversed orientation. Archived tiff is saved. Adobe Photoshop used to reorient and crop image, invert image to positive polarity, set and neutralize shadow and highlight point, adjust midtone contrast, and desaturate color information. Second production tiff saved, retaining adjustments layers. Photoshop used to convert color profile from Adobe 1998, to sRGB, set resolution to 125 dpi and resize the largest pixel dimension of the image to 875. Display jpeg saved after resizing. |
| Additional Digital Formats Held by UO | Archived tiff -- PH001_0827.tif -- 43 bit, Adobe RGB (1998) -- 3846 X 5040 pixels -- 600 dpi -- 116,321,960 bytes //
Production tiff -- PH001_0827td.tif -- 24 bit, Adobe RGB (1998) -- 3846 X 5040 pixels -- 600 dpi -- 116,844,128 bytes //
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| Additional physical formats held by UO | silver gelatin print -- PH001_0827 -- 6.5 X 8.5 inches //
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| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Digital Collection | University of Oregon. Libraries. Historical Photographs.
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