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| Title | Storeroom at Pacific American Fisheries salmon canning factory, 1910 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | 1910 |
| Caption | Bellingham Bay's first commercial salmon cannery opened in Fairhaven, Washington in 1895. By 1901, Whatcom County was home to twelve of the nineteen canneries on Puget Sound. That year, the county's 5, 500 cannery workers packed 935, 000 cases of salmon. At 48 one-pound cans per case, that's 44, 880, 000 cans.
This 1910 photo, taken at the Pacific American Fisheries salmon cannery on Bellingham Bay, shows stacks of one-pound cans piled in a storeroom. The cans have been filled with salmon and are waiting to be labeled before being shipped to market. Pacific American Fisheries was one of the largest cannery companies in the Pacific Northwest. |
| Notes | Inventory title: 10, 000 cans. |
| Subjects | Canneries
Fishing industry
Industrial facilities
Pacific American Fisheries Company
Salmon |
| Places | Bellingham (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.8341 |
| 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 | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 glass negative: b&w; 6.5 x 8.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 700 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS4, JPEG quality measurement 4. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | W&S 10, 529 |
