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Title	[Apex Fish Cannery]
Accession ID number	1943.42.27681
Object Type	negative, glass-plate
Creator	Asahel Curtis; Walter P. Miller
Date	August 16, 1913
Rights	Property of the Washington State Historical Society - All Rights Reserved
Full Description	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.
Inscription	27681 / Curtis & Miller
Subject	Anacortes, WA; Skagit County; cannery, salmon; Aworker, cannery; Apex Fish Company; woman
Remarks	"Anacortes, 'The Gloucester of the Pacific,' puts up more canned salmon than any other city on earth. The six salmon canneries of Anacortes - The Alaska Packers Association, the Fidalgo Island Packing Company, the Pacific American Fisheries, the Apex Fish Company, the Coast Fish Company and the Porter Fish company- last season packed approximately 700,000 cases of salmon. If all the cases of salmon turned out by the six Anacortes canneries in one ten hour day were placed one on top of the other they would make a pile 20,5000 feet high, or nearly twice as high as Mt. Baker...Every four years is a big year in the salmon canning industry. It is then that the sockeye, the choicest of salmon for canning purposes, enter Puget Sound from the ocean in teeming millions on their way to spawning grounds in the fresh waters of the Fraser and Skagit rivers." Source: Anacortes Chamber of Commerce and Manufacture. ANACORTES AND SKAGIT COUNTY, 1914
Electronic Publisher	Washington State Historical Society
Description	glass; black and white
Condition	fair. Two scratches in lower center and left edge of emulsion. Fingerprints at edges.
Date Digital	2006-12
Dimension	height: 7.938 inches; width: 9.938 inches
File Characteristics	Negative scanned on a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f scanner at 600 ppi grayscale tiff and resized to a 300 jpeg. Adjustments made using Adobe Photoshop CS