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| Title | Hunter's collection of brown bear pelts near Sand Point, ca. 1912 |
| Photographer | Bales |
| Date | ca. 1912 |
| Notes | Sand Point is located on Humboldt Harbor on Popof Island, off the Alaska Peninsula, 570 air miles from Anchorage. Sand Point was founded in 1898 by a San Francisco fishing company as a trading post and cod fishing station. Aleuts from surrounding villages and Scandinavian fishermen were the first residents of the community. Sand Point served as a repair and supply center for gold mining during the early 1900s, but fish processing became the dominant activity in the 1930s. The St. Nicholas Chapel, a Russian Orthodox church, was built in 1933 and is now on the National Register of Historical Places. Aleutian Cold Storage built a halibut plant in 1946. Today, it is home to the largest fishing fleet in the Aleutian Chain.
Caption on image: Skins of 12 brown bears shot near Sand Point, Alaska, by 2 hunters.
PH Coll 247.187 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Hides & skins--Alaska--Sand Point; Bear hunting--Alaska; |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Brown bear--Alaska--Sand Point; Hunters--Alaska--Sand Point |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Sand Point |
| Digital Collection | John E. Thwaites Photographs |
| Order Number | THW102 |
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| Negative Number | THWAITES 247.187 |
| 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. |
