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Fisheries -- Northwest, Pacific -- Photographs

The Salmon Collection view detail comment email this

This online exhibit "contains documents, photographs and other material describing the roots of the salmon crisis in the Pacific Northwest in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Browse by topics such as Native Americans, seining (using nets), traps and fishwheels, fish drying, salmon hatcheries, salmon canneries, salmon on the Columbia River, and the salmon industries in Alaska and Washington state. Searchable. From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/salmonweb/
Topics: Fish, Reptiles, & Amphibians, U.S. History By Place

Last updated Apr 12, 2004


Tollman and Canaris Photographs view detail comment email this

"These photographs by two little known photographers [John W. Tollman and Frank H. Canaris] document the salmon fishing industry on the southern Washington coast and in the lower Columbia River around the year 1897 and offer valuable insights into the history of commercial salmon fishing and the techniques used at the beginning of the 20th century." From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/tollcanweb/
Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States

Last updated Sep 7, 2006





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