Miners lined up in front of the Fairbanks, Alaska, post office, waiting for their mail. Photograph courtesy of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art 
New gold discoveries in Alaska brought thousands of prospectors into the territory. In a scene that could have been from any mining town in Alaska or the Klondike, miners are shown here lined up for their mail in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Photograph courtesy of the Anchorage Museum of History and Art.

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