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| Title | Children watching fisherman Hegerberg repair net at Fisherman's Terminal, Seattle, 1949 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1949 |
| Caption | Puget Sound fishermen use large nets, called seines, to catch salmon. Setting and pulling in the nets by hand was hard work. Today, much of this work is done by machine. In this 1949 photo, Anton Mikkelson Hegerberg is repairing his net while a group of children look on. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Kids at Fishermen Dock.
Handwritten on sleeve: Seattle - docks - Fishermen's.
Caption by MOHAI staff.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): April 7, 1949. Name supplied by family. |
| Subjects | Fishermen--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fishing nets--Washington (State)--Seattle; Children--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fishermen's Terminal (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Personal Names | Hegerberg, Anton Mikkelson |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Interbay (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | PI23062 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
