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Salmon can, "Peter Pan" brand, ca. 1929
Stuart Trick was an Alaskan cannery worker who hailed from Washington. He used this can to send a letter, dated July 1929 and detailing his experiences, to his mother from the Peter Pan salmon cannery in Chomley, Alaska.
ID Number:2006.66.1
Date:Circa 1929
Letter mailed in salmon can from Stuart Trick to his mother, 1929
Stuart Trick was an Alaskan cannery worker who hailed from Washington. While working at the Peter Pan Salmon cannery in Chomley, Alaska, Stuart wrote this letter to his mother, dated July 1929, detailing his experiences. He then sent the letter in one of the salmon cans.
ID Number:2006.66.2
Date:1929
Painting by Lockwood Dennis, "Main Fish Waterfront," 1977
Lockwood "Woody" Dennis (1937-2012) was born in Portland, Oregon, but lived in Port Townsend, Washington, for 37 years. He was inclined to paint both natural and industrial scenes from the Northwest, California, Colorado, Africa, and Japan. In this work, showing a pier on Elliott Bay in Seattle, one can see Lockwood's influences which were primarily Matisse and Cezanne, as well…
ID Number:2013.56.6
Date:1977
Puretic power block manufactured by Marine Construction & Design Co. in Seattle, ca. 2000
Marine Construction & Design Co. was founded in 1953 and is based in Seattle, Washington. They manufacture and supply fishing equipment, hydraulic components and drives, and marine equipment in the United States and internationally. The Puretic power block, invented by Croatian fisherman, Mario Puratic in 1953, is a mechanised winch and aluminum pulley used to haul nets on fishing vessels.
ID Number:2017.62.1
Date:2000
Cedar wood carving of Pacific King Salmon by Al Adams, ca. 1990
Al Adams, born in 1929 in Port Angeles, was a successful dentist on Mercer Island during his adult years. An avid fisherman and passionate supporter of protecting the salmon habitat, he was most known locally for building the first residential salmon hatchery on his own property in the 1970s. His work on wild salmon habitat restoration was written about in…
ID Number:2018.37.1
Date:Circa 1990