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Alaskan Salmon Canneries, Title Page - Alaska Salmon Cannery, Kake, Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, AK
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Whiteley, Tim
Title
Alaskan Salmon Canneries, Title Page - Alaska Salmon Cannery, Kake, Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, AK
Depicted place Alaska; Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area; Kake
Date 1993
date QS:P571,+1993-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER AK,22-KAKE,1- (sheet 1 of 2)
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  • Significance: In 1879 two San Francisco based companies established Alaska's first salmon canneries at Old Sitka and Klawock. Earlier Russian-American Company salteries had marketed salted salmon to California and the Sandwich Islands. By 1889 the number of canneries jumped to 37, leading to over-expansion and bankruptcy, forcing many private owners to consolidate. During World War I, the government assumed control of many canneries and confiscated over one-half of the canned salmon pack for the war effort. From 1911 to 1920 the salmon cannery industry was at its peak with annual averages exceeding 5 million cases. In 1914 the industry caught an estimated 60 million salmon, and during the 1936 season, which saw the largest salmon pack, Alaska canneries processed nearly 100 million fish. Dictated by erratic fish runs, boom and bust cannery ventures, bankruptcy, isolation, shipwrecks, fish conservation legislation, rampant fire, and international labor disputes, Alaska salmon canneries succumbed to massive set backs. By 1950 less than one-third of the approximately 340 canneries built in Alaska remained. Canneries were located at the mouths of fresh water rivers and creeks where Pacific salmon returned from the ocean to spawn and unlike Atlantic salmon, to die. By law, salmon were caught in inlets and bays. Three geographically distinct fishing regions developed in Alaska: 1) Southeast - Major salmon runs in the Alexander Archipelago; 2) Central - Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet and Kodiak; and 3) Western - Alaska Peninsula and Bristol Bay. The multitude of fish attracted fisherman and entrepreneur alike. Often investors recovered the cost of cannery construction in just one month - an average season. The Alaska Steamship Line linked canneries to an immigrant labor force and worldwide distributors in Seattle and San Francisco.
  • Survey number: HAER AK-28
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ak0437.sheet.00001a
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Object location56° 58′ 32.99″ N, 133° 56′ 49.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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