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George Inlet Packing Co. plant, ca. 1912
George Inlet Packing Co. plant, ca. 1912
TitleGeorge Inlet Packing Co. plant, ca. 1912
PhotographerThwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940
Dateca. 1912
NotesCaption on image: The George Inlet Packing Co. Plant, Alaska

PH Coll 247.833
Contextual NotesGeorge Inlet was named in 1880 for Captain William George, a longtime Alaskan sea captain and ship's pilot. A saltery operated in the inlet for about a year and in 1848, someone developed oyster beds and a lead-silver-zinc vein was mined near the shores of George Inlet.

Subjects (LCTGM)George Inlet Packing Company--Facilities--Alaska; Packing plants--Alaska; George Inlet (Alaska); Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska; Piers & wharves--Alaska
Location DepictedUnited States--Alaska--George Inlet
Digital CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photographs
Order NumberTHW361
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Negative NumberTHWAITES 247.833
RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionJohn E. Thwaites Photograph Collection. PH Coll 247
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned 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.
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