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Alaska Highway Postcards

Alaska Highway Postcards by Provincial News, 1942-43
#9 - An old Indian village, at Kluane Lake, somewhat augmented by U.S. Army tents, on the Alaska Highway.
Approved by Northwest Service Command, U.S. Army.
WIB photo.

As well as being an Indian village, this was also a gold mining service community called Silver City or Kluane. Although most of the land is now privately owned, it's the Yukon's largest ghost town, with many buildings remaining.

Alaska Highway postcard showing Army tents among the miners' and Indians' log cabins at Silver City on Kluane Lake, 1940s

Reverse of Alaska Highway postcard by Provincial News, 1940s



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