Snug Harbor Cannery, Chisik Island Photograph Collection, ca. 1933-1965

Collection

Identifier: PCA 212

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates

circa 1933-1965

EAD

PCA0212

Conditions Governing Access

The photographs may not be photocopied.

Extent

42 Photographic Prints : 20 photographs 1 map 22 photographs with negatives 12 color 35mm slides 1953 to 1955

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Processing Information

The collection has been left intact; images were received glued to black construction paper with citations written in yellow pencil. The images have been numbered.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Snug Harbor Cannery, Chisik Island Photograph Collection, ca. 1933-1965
Status: Completed
Author: Processed by: Staff ; Revised by: Jim Simard, December 2017 ; ArchivesSpace Finding Aid by: Freya Anderson; Inventory added by Jack Kovaleski, February 2021
Date: 2021 February
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English