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| Title | Pacific Coast and Norway Packing Co. Cannery, Petersburg, 1908 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | 1908 |
| Notes | Caption on image: P.C. & N.P. Co. Cannery, Petersburg, Alaska, 1908. Photo Print by F.H. Nowell, Seattle. W.H. Case. 302-N |
| Contextual Notes | Petersburg is located on the north end of Kitkof Island, 32 miles northwest of Wrangell. Known as the Little Norway of Alaska, Petersburg was inhabited largely by Scandinavians whose chief occupation was fishing, canning, lumbering and fur farming. The town grew up around a salmon cannery and a sawmill built in 1897-1899. A post office was established in 1900. (pg. 751) Notes from Donald Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967)
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Canneries--Alaska--Petersburg
Piers & wharves--Alaska--Petersburg
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Pacific Coast and Norway Packing Company
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Petersburg |
| Digital Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photographs
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| Order Number | NOW088 |
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photograph Collection. PH Coll 316
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in. |
| 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 768x600 ppi. 2002. |
