Date10/1911
MediumAlbumen Print; Mounted
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Object number2000.100.202.64
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionLog Cabin Club, interior lounge, Nome, Alaska. Above the doorway leading into the bar is a carving of three lines of the poem, "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam" written by Omar Khayyam (1048-1122), translated into English by Edward J. Fitzgerald in 1859. The carving reads "My clay with long Oblivion is gone dry/ But fill me with the old familiar juice,/ Methinks I might recover by and buy." (The original ending is 'by and by' but the engraver changed the last word to 'buy' as a pun appropriate for the drinking establishment). The shelf circling the room holds the beer steins of the regular guests. Each stein has the name of its owner carved into the wood of the shelf below it.On View
Not on view
Bierstadt, Charles
A. W. Faber Pencil Manufactory
Circa 1860
Circa 1860
Circa 1826
1745-1925
U.S. Government Printing Office
