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B2015.008.906
[two men in fish scow at dock, Cordova?]
Keywords: harbor, fishing
Collection: B2015.008
B1989.016.1402
Talley scow, Bristol Bay. Hewitt's, 11 [sailboats near barges in bay. copy neg]
Keywords: fishing industry
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.142.003
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [boats next to structure, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.003
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structure; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.004
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structure; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.005
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.143.006
47-5 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.001
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.002
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.003
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.005
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2021.008.39
Pitching the salmon in scow [fish trap with a woman and a man on platform. Scow with name on bow, “EMARD.” Emard Packing Company was located at the mouth of Ship Creek in Anchorage. Likely Everett fish trap site in Trading Bay]
Keywords: Fishing, Fish Trap, Scow, Cook Inlet
Collection: B2021.008 Myrtle Everett Bragaw
B1990.014.2018.1.142.006
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats next to structure; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.004
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats and structures; pier; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.142.004
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats docked next to structure; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.144.006
47-6 Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boats moored in a bay; structures; June 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.225.004
70-3; Indian town from Fitz's scow [view of structures at shoreline; pilings; boats; Sitka; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.225.005
70-3; Indian town from Fitz's scow [view of structures at shoreline; pilings; boats; Sitka; August 1941]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1998.014.1.674
F11 Unloading herring at Ketchikan, photo by Frank Morgan [men in rain gear work in a scow(?), copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2013.059.020
Canneries. Bering Sea. [sailboat resting on shore, nets spilling over side, with two sailboats and scow in distance]
Collection: B2013.059
B2013.059.011
Canneries. Bering Sea. [view of boat filled with fish, pulled up next to scow with Diamond NN boat facing]
Collection: B2013.059
B1998.014.1.660
"F5 Alaska's #1 industry; fishing boat & fish" [two men move fish on decking, possibly on a tender or scow]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1974.040.039
Canneries. Two cannery scows on flats waiting to go out for fish summer of 1938. Site of Emard Cannery (now Fidalgo) Anchorage.
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
B1990.014.2018.1.142.001
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boat in bay next to Noyes Island Fish Co; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.142.002
47-4; June; Nefco buying scows on west coast [fishing boat in bay next to Noyes Island Fish Co; 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.154.005
50-4; U.S. Army Transport in channel [vessel Liberty anchored next to floating structure, possibly scow, likely near Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.154.006
50-4; U.S. Army Transport in channel [vessel Liberty anchored next to floating structure, possibly scow, likely near Ketchikan, 1940]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B2017.011.134
Alaska ’47 – Ketchikan, seine boat with salmon scow passing channel enroute traps to south [fishing boat under way, buildings on shore in background]
Collection: B2017.011
B1998.014.1.659
F5 Alaska's number one industry "fishing boat and fish" [three men aboard "Atka" fishing boat; possibly next to fish tender or scow filled with fish, copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.666
F8 Bristol Bay fishing [three sailboats with masts up, boat number 45 A&P (Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.), double-ender, men in boats, fishing scow in foreground is filled with salmon; copy neg]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley