First Avenue, Seattle, Washington, No. 8

From Edison films catalog: Taken during the Klondike excitement. The streets are crowded with miners buying outfits and supplies. Mule trains, trolley cars and hurrying pedestrians give life and bustle to the scene. 50 feet. $7.50. Advertised as part of the "Northern Pacific Railway Series" (Edison films catalog): The following pictures were taken by our artists at various points on the Northern Pacific Railway. We are greatly indebted to their officials who afforded us every opportunity in their power to obtain these splendid views. Many of the scenes are incident to the excitement prevailing at the time of the Klondike gold rush. They show the resources of this company for handling large numbers of people, baggage, freight and excursion parties, and give to prospective tourists and merchants an idea of the facilities with which this road handles traffic of all kinds (p. 9). (LoC)

• James H. WhiteDirector

Release date

October 1, 1897

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1m

Genres

Documentary

• Sonnenfinsternis

  1958

• 

  Petroleum

  1941

• 

  An Bord eines Panzerschiffes

  1939

• 

  Baptism

  1969

• Samenverbreitung

  1983

• Auf den Spuren der wilden Otter

  1986

• 

  The ABCs of Book Banning

  2024

• Unsere MiG

  1986

• 

  Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

  1895

• 

  Typhoon Tamara

  1986

• 

  New York Portrait, Chapter III

  1990

• 

  Artémis et la mort

  2017