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| Title | View of the village of Orca, ca. 1910 |
| Photographer | Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940 |
| Date | ca. 1910 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Orca, Alaska
PH Coll 247.610 |
| Contextual Notes | The tiny village of Orca, on the shores of Prince William Sound, was the site of a fish cannery. The village played a critical role during the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition. After the GEORGE W. ELDER broke one of its iron propellers exploring Harriman Fjord, the ship returned to Orca, where repairs were made. The cannery thrived for many years, backed by its own fishing fleet, but eventually went under. Now about the only activity on the grounds is the wandering of goats.
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Orca (Alaska); Villages--Alaska--Orca; Prince William Sound (Alaska) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Orca |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW293 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.610 |
| 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. |
