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| Title | Apex Fish Company women workers |
| Accession ID number | 1943.42.27677 |
| Object Type | negative, glass-plate |
| Creator | Asahel Curtis; Walter P. Miller |
| Date | 1913 |
| Rights | Property of the Washington State Historical Society - All Rights Reserved |
| Full Description | Two women cannery workers at the Apex Fish Company stand in front of flats of newly canned salmon. One woman looks at the photographer, while the other looks straight ahead. They wear rubber bib-style aprons, gloves and drawstring cloth caps. Cannery equipment can be seen behind them. |
| Inscription | 27677 |
| Subject | Apex Fish Company; Anacortes, WA; Skagit County; cannery, fish; worker, cannery; 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, 500 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 | good. Light silvering and some fingerprints at edges. |
| Date Digital | 2007 |
| Dimension | height: 8 inches; width: 10 inches |
| File Characteristics | Negative scanned on a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f scanner at 600 ppi grayscale tiff and resized to a 300 jpeg using Adobe Photoshop CS |
