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Guide to the Alaska Marine
Resources and Pribilof Islands Photograph Collection
ca.
1896-1909
| Title:
| Alaska Marine
Resources and Pribilof Islands Photograph Collection | | Date Span:
| ca. 1896-1909 | | Quantity:
| 30 photographic prints (1 box) | | Location:
| K0183 | | PH Collection No.:
| 595 | | Languages:
| Collection materials are in
English. |
 | | Aleut men and pelagic sealing apparatus. Special Collections, UW
Libraries, UW 22259z |
| Funding for encoding this finding
aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities. |
Scope and ContentThe 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. Processing InfoProcessed by Rebekah Dalby, 2002. BibliographyUnited 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 1896
United 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
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Second preliminary report of the Bering Sea
fur seal investigations, 1897. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1898.
979.8 Un381s
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The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the
North Pacific ocean. Washington: Govt. Printing Office, 1898-99. SH361
.U5
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Item
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Date
| | | Pribilof Islands, Alaska | | | 1 | 1 | | Landing at
village, St. Paul Island, Alaska
 | 1896 | | 2 | 2 | | Village, St.
Paul Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | 3 | 3 | | Village, St.
Paul Island, Alaska | 1896 | | 4 | 4 | | Village, St.
Paul Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | Photographer: N.B.
Miller | | 5 | 5 | | People in
wagons, going to the killing grounds for skins, St. Paul Island,
Alaska
| 1896 | | 6 | 6 | | Aleut family,
St. Paul Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | 7 | 7 | | Christmas
banquet given to natives of St. Paul Island by the North American Commercial
Company, St. Paul Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | 8 | 8 | | Bridal party,
St. Paul Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | 9 | 9 | | Wildflowers in
August, St. Paul Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | 10 | 10 | | Village, St.
George Island, Alaska | 1896 | | Photographer: N.B.
Miller | | 11 | 11 | | Aleut children
with two men, St. George Island, Alaska
| 1896 |
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Item
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Date
| | | Drying Salmon | | | 12 | 12 | | Drying Salmon,
Unalaska, Alaska
| 1896 | | Photographer: N.B.
Miller |
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Item
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Date
| | | Pelagic Seal and Otter Hunting | | | 13 | 13 | | Eskimo hunting
implements
| 1896 | | Photographer: N.B.
Miller | | 14 | 14 | | Tlingit hunters
throwing spear at seal
| 1896 | | 15 | 15 | | "Biderkas" skin
canoes for hunting sea otter, Kodiak, Kodiak Island, Alaska
| 1896 | | Photographer: N.B.
Miller | | 16 | 16 | | Sea otter hunter
and boats, Unalaska, Alaska
| 1896 | | Photographer: N.B.
Miller | | 17 | 17 | | Crew of pelagic
fur-sealing vessel
| 1896 | | 18 | 18 | | Aleut men and
pelagic sealing apparatus
| 1896 |
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Item
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Date
| | | Hatcheries | | | 19 | 19 | | Alaska Packers
Association hatchery, Karluk, Kodiak Island, Alaska
| | | 20 | 20 | | Interior of
Alaska Packers Association hatchery, Karluk, Kodiak Island, Alaska
| | | 21 | 21 | | Men transferring
stock salmon to corral, Karluk, Kodiak Island, Alaska | | | 22 | 22 | | "Method used at
Karluk hatchery for drawing off fry from nursery," Karluk, Kodiak Island,
Alaska | | | 23 | 23 | | Rack in stream
at Fortmann hatchery, Loring, Alaska | | | Photographer: J.M.C. | | 24 | 24 | | Men working at
Fortmann hatchery, Loring, Alaska
| | | Photographer: J.M.C. | | 25 | 25 | | Northwestern
Fisheries Company hatchery, Hetta, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska | 1901 | | Photographer: J.M.C. | | 26 | 26 | | John C.
Callbreath Hatchery, McHenry, Etolin Island, Alaska
| | | 27 | 27 | | Trap pen and
barrier in lower course of stream, John C. Callbreath Hatchery, McHenry, Etolin
Island, Alaska | | | 28 | 28 | | Racks and
troughs used in salmon hatcheries
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Item
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Date
| | | Fishing Ships | | | 29 | 29 | | Ship
Guy C. Goss, operated by the Northwestern
Fisheries Company of Seattle, Wash.
| 1909 | | Photographer: Muirhead | | 30 | 30 | | Fish offal
collecting steamer Salmonero, operated by the
Russia Cement Company of Anacortes, Wash.
| 1909 | | Photographer: Muirhead |
| Subject Terms | |
Personal Names:
| | Miller, N. B., photographer. | |
Subjects:
| | 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. | |
Geographic Names:
| | Kodiak Island (Alaska)--Photographs. | | Pribilof Islands (Alaska)--Photographs. |
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