The photographs in this collection preserve a rare documentation of life in Yakutat at the height of Southeast Alaska’s salmon canning industry. Kayamori photographed buildings in Yakutat, the canneries, Tlingits, funerals of prominent residents, Alaska Native Brotherhood and Alaska Native Sisterhood activities and numerous portraits. The collection includes a photograph of the Thunderbird Clan House, no longer in existence, and two photographs of Kayamori.