Chisik Island is located on the west side of Cook Inlet and salmon canneries operated on the island from 1919 to 1948. Chisik Island and nearby Duck Island are part of the Tuxedni National Wildlife Refuge; both islands are seabird sanctuaries.

This small collection, which has no provenance on record in the Historical Collections, contains views of the island and surrounding areas as well as scenes of cannery activities and boats which used the docking facilities; citations written in yellow pencil.

Accession 2006-38 has 22 photographs and corresponding negatives. They were taken by the donor while working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Pacific Salmon Investigations Laboratory in Seattle. He was attached to various projects in Alaska in research of sockeye salmon.