Guy V. Graham Libby McNeill & Libby photograph collection, 1880s-1950s

Written on verso: 100,000 fish on floor of a Bristol Bay salmon cannery.

Written on photograph: "Rigours of salmon canning in far-flung outposts. Belatedly leaving a Bristol Bay cannery.

Written on verso: "This happened several years ago at one of Libby's canneries. Koggiung beach, October 17th 1915.

Written on verso: Where boats stored for winter.

Written on verso: Craig water supply for cannery.

Written on verso: Dam for water supply.

Written on verso: Craig, Alaska. After 1935 when cannery built. Second from left was cookhouse/offices. Still standing 2008. Left--no longer there 2006. 1957--main cannery burned.

Written on verso: Craig, Alaska 1942. Purse seine boats on the ways. Ways built 1940. Libby McNeill & Libby "The Libby Scanner" Office managers Dept. Union Stock Yards.

Possibly the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of America.

Written on verso of item a: Main cannery, George Inlet. 1st leased by Libby 1927.

Written on verso of item a: Dock at George Inlet. Currently, a tourist attraction for Cape Fox Native Corp.

Written on verso: Supt and other housing, George Inlet.

Written on verso: Water supply, George Inlet. From Whitmon Creek.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1945. House scow and Charlotte B loading out salmon to steamer. Loading dock at high tide.

Item 72 not used.

Written on verso of item a: Kenai, Alaska 1942. Supt's Home. J.A. Torwick- Supt.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1942. Pick up truck used to haul fish to the cannery from set-netters. Left to right: native boy, George miller, old-time set-netter, trapper, etc., J.A. Torwick, Supt. Conner Gale, Truck Driver.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1945. Cannery Tender Charlotte B en route to Anchorage for scow load of coal. Capt Dick Allen (upper right) Engineer Ed Gunderson (Upper left) cook and deck hand below.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1945. Cannery Tender Flyer unloading fish at dock.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1945. Left to Right, Supt. A. R. Pearmain, Capt. John Sandwick, Engineer George Ritz.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska. Radio room. Radio operator, Ralph Butler.

Written on verso of item a: Kenai, Alaska 1945. Fish elevator and tender New Sunset at dock. Dock at high-tide.

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1945. Dock and waterfront at low tide showing gridirons and "Power scow Ermine"

Written on verso: Kenai, Alaska 1945. Mess house, Women's bunkhouse, oil tanks, water tanks, cannery, store and office building.

Written on verso: Cannery workers living quarters at Koggiung, Alaska.

Written on photograph: Waterfront, Koggiung.

Written on photograph: Starting out.

Alaska Packers Association, or APA, was a San Francisco based manufacturer of Alaska canned salmon, founded in 1891. APA was well known for operating the "Star Fleet" as late as 1927. The "Star Fleet" was the last fleet of commercial sailing vessels on the West Coast of North America.

Numbers 151-159 not used.

Written on verso of item b: Koggiung, Alaska 1944 (Bristol Bay). Mess house, Hospital, Cold Storage, Guest House, Supply Houses etc.

Written on verso: Seattle, Wash. 1942. Lake Union yards. Cannery tenders at winter moorings waiting repairs etc.

Written on verso: Gasoline stacked outside cannery building.

Written on verso: Wire for traps.

Written on photograph: Ex-Taku to Geo. Inlet

Written on verso: Taku Harbor, Alaska 1943. Supt's house. A. N. Minand, Spt. Southeastern Alaska.

Written on verso: A Saturday night bath in Taku.

Written on verso of item a: Native housing.

Written on verso: wire for making fish traps.

Written on verso of item c: Winter storage for scows.

Sign reads: Seaplane float keep clear.

Written on verso: Taku Harbor, Alaska 1944. Supt. A. N. Minand and "Prince". Supt's home in background. Southeastern Alaska.

Possibly the Roedda .

Written on verso: Looking out toward Steven's Passage.

Written on verso: Taku Harbor, Alaska 1944. Preparing "pot" for floating fish trap. Southeastern Alaska.

Written on verso: Unloading halibut.

Written on verso: Unloading halibut.

Written on verso: Unpowered scow in foreground.

Written on verso: Radio shack.

Written on verso: Taku Harbor, Alaska 1944. S.S. Aleutian , Alaska Steamship Co. Loading out salmon and cannery crew. Southeastern Alaska.

Written on verso: Fish tenders.

Written on verso: Taku Harbor, Alaska 1944. Cannery tender "Roedda" and "Moira" tied at the dock. Southeastern Alaska.

Written on photograph: At Situk Landing, Yakutat, Alaska

Written on photograph: These articles made by sewing class. Yakutat, Alaska 1917.

Written on verso: Native band at Yakutat.

The General Gorgas was built in 1902. Libby McNeill and Libby purchased from Panama Railroad Co. in 1926. It was sold in 1930.

Written on verso: Near Yakutat. Railroad brought fish to cannery.

Written on verso: Outside Pacific Ocean beach near Yakutat.

Written on verso of item b: Extending railroad bed.

Written on verso: Towing river skiffs to dry bay or Situk Rivers.

Written on verso: Fishermen Situk River.

Front reads: Launch Nellie B. anchored in Harbor. Knight Island, Yakutat, Alaska.

Written on photograph: Barge St. David . Wrecked. Ocean Cape, Yakutat, Alaska

The railroad was used to haul materials to and from the Yakutat cannery. Between 1940 and 1941, the U.S. Government used it to haul materials while constructing a nearby airfield and garrison.

Written on photograph: A happy family of blue fox taking lunch. W.H. Dugdell's fox farm. Yakutat, Alaska

Written on verso of item a: Looking out to bay from Cannery. Yakutat.

Written on photograph: Swimming race. July 4, 1932,Yakutat.

Written on verso of item a: Alaska-Washington Airways out of Juneau in Yakutat.

Front reads: Canoe Race. July 4, 1935. Yakutat, Alaska.

Written on verso: Yakutat, Alaska 1944. Coho or silver salmon. Brands in fish can are approximately 6 inch wide. Three fish weighed about 22# or more.

Series of photos depicts machinery and process used for canning, it is uncertain at which cannery.

Written on verso of item a: Loading table and tray in position for loading.

25 photos with some photographs of the same person.

Written on photograph: Libby Salmon bowling team 1944-1945 season.

From right to left: Allamert, F. Britton, S.M. Mills, R.A. Simpson, and J.F. Hartnett (capt.).

Written on verso: Hoffer, Graham, McCormick, Jack Wright, McGregor, Burt Campbell.

Written on verso: Hoffer, Goakam, McCormick, Jack Knight, McGregor, Bent Campbell

Written on verso: Jack, Lee, and Lindsay Ann Borman, Casablanca, Sept. 1951.

Written on verso: Landed at Annette Island Airfield, PR.

The Neptune was sold in 1956.

The Oriental was launched in 1874, purchased by Libby, McNeill and Libby circa 1916. The company sold the vessel in 1925.

Written on verso: The Seal used in Kenai for years. Sold to private party in 1942.

This St. Frances is a later ship not the Libby ship St. Francis that was built in 1882 and ran into rocks at Umik Pass and abandoned in 1917.

Written on verso: Built by Grandy.

Written on verso of item d: Ship Abner Coburn anchored in Cook Inlet.

The Abner Coburn was built 1882. Bought from Port Hideri Packing Co. circa 1913 Burned for metals in 1929 or 1936.

Bought circa 1913 from Alaska Fishing Packing co. It completed the last voyage from Alaska in 1922. Destroyed circa 1936 and burnt for scrap.

Built 1899 and purchased by Libby, McNeill and Libby circa 1916. Completed last voyage from Alaska in 1923 and was destroyed in 1937.

George Curtis was built 1884. First mentioned in 1916. Burned circa 1924

On May 14, 1917, St. Francis, bound for Libby, McNeill, & Libby's northern station at Koggiung from San Francisco with a full cargo of supplies and nearly 250 cannery workers and fishermen, was swept onto the rocky Alaskan shore at Unimak Pass. The vessel and all of its cargo was deemed a total loss.

The power schooner Expansion was purchased circa 1918

Written on photograph: Red Salmon Canning Co. 1937. 7 m.p.h. Built by Maritime Boat Building Co., Seattle

Written on verso: Not Libby. Power Scow. Co. at Naknek in Bristol Bay. Started 1916--Frank B. Peterson pres. 1948 Sold to Wards Cove Pkg.