(ALASKA) Album containing over 60 images of South Eastern A

Sale 1907 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 1,265

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(ALASKA)
Album containing over 60 images of southeastern Alaska fishing operations compiled for a report on salmon fishing in the area, comprising views of canneries and hatcheries, salmon-laden streams, native fishermen and villages in Ketchikan, Nushagak, Sitkah Bay, Klinkuan, and more. Silver prints, 10x13 to 4 1/2x7 inches, with captions and/or reference numbers, in the negative, and a mimeographed list of captions corresponding to those numbers tipped to the first leaf; images are mounted one to 4 per page recto/verso. Oblong folio, black cloth, worn. 1889-1901

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A visual chronicle of Alaskan salmon fishing conditions in the 1890s, the same period when Alaska was a hotbed of gold-mining fever. The album was compiled for Jefferson F. Moser who was the commanding officer aboard the Albatross, a U. S. Fishing commission vessel used to conduct scientific expeditions in the Northwest as well as the Philippines and the Carribean. Moser's 1889 report "Salmon and Salmon Fisheries of Alaska" apparently included photographic illustrations, some of which may be included here.