Apex Fish Company; Anacortes, WA; Skagit County; cannery, fish; worker, cannery; salmon; fishing industry
Interior of the Apex Fish Company at Anacortes, Washington showing a huge pile of salmon on the cannery floor ready to be processed. Workers can be seen in the background.
King County; Snoqualmie River; Snoqualmie Falls; waterfall; powerhouse; Puget Sound Traction Light & Power Co.; hydroelectric power
Looking across the Snoqualmie River at the Puget Sound Traction Light and Power Company Powerhouse #1 above the Snoqualmie Falls. Five company employees houses are on a hill behind the powerhouse.
Exterior view of the Apex Fish Company brick warehouse seen from the back with a wooden ramp leading to an open door revealing stacked cases of fish. Four cannery workers stand on the wooden ramp near a handcart stacked with cans.
Anacortes, WA; Skagit County; Apex Fish Company; cannery, salmon; canning
The cooling floor at the Apex Cannery in Anacortes, Washington. Flats holding canned salmon cover the floor of the warehouse cooling after the steaming process.
Anacortes, WA; Skagit County; Apex Fish Company; cannery, salmon; canning; cannery worker; Asians in Washington
Workers at the Apex Cannery in Anacortes, Washington stand by pallets of freshly canned salmon. A cannery machinery can be sen behind the workers. One of the workers is Asian American.
Row of cannery workers at the Apex Cannery in Anacortes, Washington clean fish at a long work bench inside the cannery. They wear rubber aprons over their work clothes and they all wear hats or caps. A water pipe is mounted to ceiling over the...
Women cannery workers hand fill cans at the Apex Fish Company in Anacortes, Wash. The women stand in a line behind a long table with a shelf at eye level. They wear gloves to fill the cans that they place in flats on the table. They wear aprons...
Cannery workers operate fish cutting machines that chunk salmon at the Apex Fish Cannery in Anacortes, Boxes of the chunked salmon are in front of the machines
Men and women cannery workers crimp the tops on cans of salmon at an assembly line at the Apex Fish Company Cannery in Anacortes, Washington. The women wear rubber aprons over work dresses and cloth drawstring caps cover their hair.
The warehouse floor of the Apex Cannery in Anacortes covered with wall to wall salmon cans. A group of cannery workers stands in an aisle that runs through the middle of the building.
Men and women cannery workers fill salmon cans by machine at the Apex Cannery in Anacortes. The women wear rubber aprons over their work dresses, gloves and cloth drawstring caps cover their hair.
Apex Fish Company; Anacortes, WA; cannery, salmon; salmon
Close-up of the top of a can of salmon from the Apex Fish Company cannery in Anacortes, WA. In the center of the can top is trademark for the company; a flag with the letter APEX arranged in a diamond shape around the letters F and C in the center...
Workers at the Apex Fish Company in Anacortes, Washington have their picture taken on the dock at the cannery. There appear to be over 100 men and women on the dock. Most wear rubber aprons and the women wear drawstring cloth caps. On the face...
Fishermen on the fishing boat, "Moonlight" out of Bellingham, use a brail net to haul fish from a purse seine. The deck is stacked high with netting. One of the fishermen is standing in a rowboat beside the fishing boat.
Purse seiners closing net somewhere off the northwest coast of Washington State. The floats of the net can be seen floating on top of the water. Fishermen on the fishing boat and in a small skiff pull on the nets.