PCA 237-1: Carl L. Hubbs Photograph Collection, 1939

PCA 237-1: Carl L. Hubbs Photograph Collection, 1939 Alaska State Library

Alaska State Library

Historical Collections

Hubbs, Carl Leavitt, Collector

Carl L. Hubbs Photograph Collection, 1939

PCA 237-1

23 photographs, b&w Processed: 5/30/00.

Revised: 8/05

ACQUISTION: A small selection of copyprints purchased from UC Scripps Institution of Oceanography May 1984, from their Carl Leavitt Hubbs Papers [and photographs] located at the Institution (Acc. No 1981-13).

ACCESS: The photographs may be viewed however they may not be photocopied.

PROCESSING: The photographs are numbered and an item-level inventory is available.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

From July to September, 1939, Dr. Hubbs served as Field Representative of the Department of the Interior, in an investigation of fishery conditions and administration in Alaska. His papers contain field notes, correspondence, transcripts of testimony and other papers. He visited canneries and villages in Southeast and South Central Alaska as well as the Aleutian Islands.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:

Alaska fisheries, canneries, Akutan, Chignik, Unga, Hidden Inlet, Port Vita, Port Wakefield. Most are distant views taken from a ship or plane.

INVENTORY

1-1 Hidden Inlet Cannery, 7/6/39 [view from water]. (I-1)

1-2 Hidden Inlet Cannery, VII:6:39 [distant view of buildings from water]. (I-3)

1-3 Illiamna Lake "roadhouse," 7/11/39 [building on right; boats at dock], (IV-5)

1-4 Alaska Salmon Co., Pederson Pt., Bristol Bay. 1939 [two docks and cannery buildings; aerial view]. (IV-9)

1-5 Stake Netters, Snag Pt., Alaska, 7/14/39 [two people in dory], (V-3)

1-6 Eskimo Woman and Salmon - Snag Pt., Alaska, 7/15/39 [woman on beach with salmon]. (V-10)

1-7 Herring Fishing, Unalaska, 7/18/39 [men in dory]. (VI-3)

1-8 "Patrolling Bearing [Bering] Sea', 7/18/39 [U.S.C.G. DUANE and mail boat FERN at dock, Unalaska]. (VI-4)

1-9 Akutan Native Village, 7/27/39 [distant view from water], (VII-7)

1-10 Akutan whaling Station [distant view of station and ships BRAUT and BROWN BEAR at dock] (VII-7)

1-11 Squaw Harbor/Shumagin Cannery/ P.A.F. [view from water of buildings]

1-12 Unga Village n.d. [distant view of village and island from water]. (XI-3)

1-13 Chignik Cannery, 8/2/39 [dock and cannery buildings]. (X-3)

1-14 Northernmost Herring Plant, Raspberry Station, 8/5/39 [plant, buildings and dock; choppy water]. (X-7)

1-15 Port Vita Herring Plant, Raspberry Station, 8/5/39 [dock and buildings as seen between boat ladder steps]. (X-8)

1-16 Port Wakefield Herring Plant, Raspberry Station, 8/5/39 [dock and buildings from water]. (X-9)

1-17 Fidalgo Id. Packing Co. Cannery Plant, Port Graham, 8/9/39 [indistinct view of cannery from the air]. (XII-1)

1-18 Fidalgo Id. Packing Co., Port Graham, Alaska, 8/9/39 [closer aerial view of buildings]. (XII-2)

1-19 P.A.F. Al. Pac. S. Co. Canneries near Ketchikan, 9/4/39 [buildings from water; Pacific American Fisheries buildings leased by Alaska Pacific Salmon Co.]. (XV-4)

1-20 P.A.F. Cannery near Ketchikan, 9/5/39 [close view of buildings]. (XV-5)

1-21 Hydaburg, 9/10/39 [aerial view]. (XVII-4)

1-22 Klawak [Klawock], 9/10/39 [aerial view]. (XVII-6)

1-23 Congressional Party on Ingham [ship], 9/11/39 [group of men on deck]. (XVII-11)

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