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Alaska Marine Resources and Pribilof Islands Photograph Collection, approximately 1896-1909
Overview of the Collection
- Title
- Alaska Marine Resources and Pribilof Islands Photograph Collection
- Dates
- approximately
1896-1909 (inclusive)18961909
- Quantity
- 30 photographic prints ((1 box))
- Collection Number
- PH0595
- Summary
- Turn of the century Alaska photographs showing seal and otter hunting activities in southeast Alaska and the Pribilof Islands, and Alaskan fish hatcheries.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials curator required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The collection contains photographs which were arranged into several sections. The first part of the collection consists of photographs made by N.B. Miller, who served as the assistant naturalist for the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury Fur Seals Investigations for 1896 in the Pribilof Islands (an island group in the Bering Sea). The commission's agenda was to observe the condition of the American fur seals of the Pibilof Islands in order to determine the factors threatening the herd, and to suggest protective measures to insure the preservation of the fur seal population. The photographs show the Pribilof Islands, Aleut peoples, and pelagic seal and otter hunting.
The second major part of the collection consists of photographs showing Alaskan fish hatcheries. In 1889, the federal Fisheries Act (amended in 1900) required each person, company, or corporation to establish a hatchery near their fishing operation and to produce "four times" the number of mature salmon as would be taken during the fishing season. These photographs show such hatcheries.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View the collection in digital format
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Processing Note
Processed by Rebekah Dalby, 2002.
Bibliography
United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Reports of agents, officers, and other persons, acting under the ... Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the condition of seal life on the rookeries of the Pribilof Islands, and to pelagic sealing in Bering Sea and the north Pacific Ocean, in the years 1893-1895. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1896. SH361 .U45 1896United States. Dept. of the Treasury, Commission on Fur-seal Investigations. Observations on the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands: preliminary report. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1896. 979.8 Un381o
-- Second preliminary report of the Bering Sea fur seal investigations, 1897. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1898. 979.8 Un381s
-- The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific ocean. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1898-99. SH361 .U5
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Pribilof Islands, AlaskaReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1896 | |
| 2 | 2 | 1896 | |
| 3 | 3 | 1896 | |
| 4 | 4 |
Village, St.
Paul Island, Alaska
N.B. Miller
(photographer)
|
1896 |
| 5 | 5 | 1896 | |
| 6 | 6 | 1896 | |
| 7 | 7 | 1896 | |
| 8 | 8 | 1896 | |
| 9 | 9 | 1896 | |
| 10 | 10 |
Village, St.
George Island, Alaska
N.B. Miller
(photographer)
|
1896 |
| 11 | 11 | 1896 |
Drying SalmonReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 12 | 12 |
Drying Salmon,
Unalaska, Alaska
N.B. Miller
(photographer)
|
1896 |
Pelagic Seal and Otter HuntingReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 13 | 13 |
Eskimo hunting
implements
N.B. Miller
(photographer)
|
1896 |
| 14 | 14 | 1896 | |
| 15 | 15 |
"Biderkas" skin
canoes for hunting sea otter, Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska
N.B. Miller
(photographer)
|
1896 |
| 16 | 16 |
Sea otter hunter
and boats, Unalaska, Alaska
N.B. Miller
(photographer)
|
1896 |
| 17 | 17 | 1896 | |
| 18 | 18 | 1896 |
HatcheriesReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 19 | 19 | between 1896 and 1901? | |
| 20 | 20 | between 1896 and 1901? | |
| 21 | 21 | between 1896 and 1901? | |
| 22 | 22 | between 1896 and 1901? | |
| 23 | 23 |
Rack in stream
at Fortmann hatchery, Loring, Alaska
J.M.C
(photographer)
|
between 1896 and 1901? |
| 24 | 24 |
Men working at
Fortmann hatchery, Loring, Alaska
J.M.C
(photographer)
|
between 1896 and 1901? |
| 25 | 25 |
Northwestern
Fisheries Company hatchery, Hetta, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska
J.M.C
(photographer)
|
1901 |
| 26 | 26 | between 1901 and 1909? | |
| 27 | 27 | between 1901 and 1909? | |
| 28 | 28 | between 1901 and 1909? |
Fishing ShipsReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folder | item | ||
| 29 | 29 |
Ship
Guy C. Goss, operated by the Northwestern
Fisheries Company of Seattle, Wash.
Muirhead
(photographer)
|
1909 |
| 30 | 30 | 1909 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Aleuts--Photographs
- Eskimos--Alaska--Hunting--Photographs
- Fish hatcheries--Alaska--Photographs
- Fisheries--Alaska--Photographs
- Fishing boats--Alaska--Photographs
- Sea otter hunting--Alaska--Photographs
- Sealing--Alaska--Photographs
- Villages--Alaska--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Geographical Names
- Kodiak Island (Alaska)--Photographs
- Pribilof Islands (Alaska)--Photographs
Other Creators
-
Personal Names
- Miller, N. B (photographer)
