1763968 The Seattle Hotel, Klondike, c.1898 (sepia photo) by Underwood & Underwood (c.1881-1940); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Klondike Gold Rush was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of the Yukon in north-western Canada between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896 and, when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of would-be prospectors.); Avant-Demain; American, out of copyright.