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| Title | Detail of salmon butchering machine patented as the "Iron Chink", patented 1906 |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Date | 2001 |
| Notes | The "Iron Chink" named by its inventor, Edmund Smith, after the Chinese laborers it was invented to replace. Although much of the salmon canning process was mechanized in the early years of the 20th century, much of the butchering was still done by skilled Chinese hand butchers. This machine could accomplish work six times faster than the most skilled hand butcher. It was displayed at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, in Seattle, 1909, as new and exciting technology in thisresource-based economy. |
| Personal Names | Smith, Edmund A. |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County; |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@seattlehistory.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI); All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
| Accession/Acquisition Number | 1970.4992 |
