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| Title | Pacific American Fisheries cannery at King Cove, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Kings Cove (P.A.F.), Alaska
PH Coll 247.362 |
| Contextual Notes | King Cove is located on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, on a sand spit fronting Deer Passage and Deer Island. It is 18 miles southeast of Cold Bay and 625 miles southwest of Anchorage. King Cove was founded in 1911 when Pacific American Fisheries built a salmon cannery. Early settlers were Scandinavian, European and Aleut fishermen. Of the first ten founding families, five consisted of a European father and an Aleut mother. The cannery operated continuously between 1911 and 1976, when it was partially destroyed by fire. The adoption of the 200-mile fisheries limit spurred rebuilding. King Cove remains tied to fishing and fish processing.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Pacific American Fisheries Company (King Cove, Alaska)--Facilities--Alaska--King Cove; Piers & wharves--Alaska--King Cove; Deer Passage (Alaska) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Salmon canneries--Alaska--King Cove; Salmon canning industry--Alaska--King Cove |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--King Cove |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW189 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.362 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | John E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
