Iñupiaq men in qayaqs, Noatak, Alaska, circa 1929. Edward S. Curtis Collection, Library of Congress Digital Collections.
Crossing the Chilkoot Pass, circa 1898. Courtesy Candy Waugaman and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park.
The Gold Rush boomtown of Nome on the Seward Peninsula, 1900. Courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library.
Lewis MacDonald’s Alaska Salmon Cannery Chronology, 1878–1950 [Note: Thank you to Jim Mackovjak for condensing MacDonald’s three reports into one, searchable document. You may find entries that are incorrect or incomplete. This is your opportunity to correct MacDonald’s chronology and add to it. Please leave a comment if you notice factual errors or have additional […]
Prepared by the Alaska Historical Society’s Alaska Historic Canneries Initiative Compiled by Robert W. King, September 2015 Dedication This guide to the history resources of Alaska fisheries is dedicated to Wrangell historian Patricia “Pat” Ann Roppel (1938-2015). Pat moved to Alaska in 1959 and wrote thirteen books and hundreds of articles, many about the history […]
[Note: Thank you to Jim Mackovjak for condensing MacDonald’s three reports into one, searchable document. You may find entries that are incorrect or incomplete. This is your opportunity to correct MacDonald’s chronology and add to it. Please leave a comment if you notice factual errors or have additional information.] Introduction In March 1949, Alaska’s Territorial […]
Note: What follows is an excerpt of the testimony of August Buschmann, pioneering cannery operator and fish trap operator, taken from the Special Subcommittee on Alaskan Problems, House Committee on Merchant Marines and Fisheries, on the Elimination of Salmon Traps in the Waters of Alaska, November, 1949. Not only does Buschmann describe the genesis of […]
