154 results for: Fish and Fishing
Ephemera
Palace Fish and Oyster Co. brochure, circa 1935
Nessim D. Alhadeff (1884-1950) was a Sephardic Jew who immigrated to Seattle in 1904 from the Mediterranean island of Rhodes. He began working in fish markets and by 1907 had set up his own market, Palace Market. Within three years he had helped his six brothers emigrate, and the growing family business was known over time as Palace Fish and…
ID Number:2013.58.15
Date:Circa 1935
Menu
Crawford's Sea Grill menu, circa 1965
Crawford's Sea Grill and Coral Room was located at 333 Elliot Ave. West, "on the shores of Puget Sound." Opened in 1940, the restaurant featured a glass-enclosed dining room and seating for over one hundered. Ivar's Captain's Table later opened in the same location. The menu indicates that "Service of all sea foods subject to weather and fishing conditions." A…
ID Number:2014.3.1.5
Date:Circa 1965
Photograph
Boy in outhouse, with tiny fish, circa 1956
A boy stands in an outhouse on a dock. He is holding a fishing line with a tiny fish on the end. Both the boy and the location are unidentified. This photo represents the visual gag or humorous genre of classic camera club print competitions.
ID Number:2014.49.Box22.Folder17.011
Date:Circa 1956
Correspondence
Seattle Fish Co. voucher, December 23, 1902
The letter seen here was sent from the Seattle Fish Company to the Pacific American Fisheries Company on behalf of George Sayers, who was to receive $75.60 for fish that he caught on behalf of the company. The Seattle Fish Co. was operated at the time by Pacific Packing and Navigation Company, a conglomerate of salmon-canning companies that operated out…
ID Number:2018.3.3.88
Date:1902
Program
Fishermen's Festival program, March 19, 1950
Seattle's annual Fishermen's Festival was first held in 1929, hosted by Reverend Olai Ludvig Haavik (1886-1977), minister at Ballard First Lutheran Church from 1921-1947. Initially a simple gathering of fishermen and their families to receive the blessing of the church for a safe and successful voyage north and to give thanks for the past years' harvests, the festival evolved to…
ID Number:2018.3.3.99
Date:1950
Ephemera
Directory of Pacific Coast Salmon Packers, 1915
This Pacific Coast Salmon Packers directory for 1915 lists packing companies in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, giving names of officers, addresses, number of canneries, and brand names packed at each location. The volume also includes a detailed description of the 1914 salmon pack; a sample of these pages is shown here.
ID Number:2018.3.3.109
Date:1915
Document
Care and Adjustment of Model "G" "Iron Chink," circa 1906
In 1903, Seattle inventor Edmund A. Smith (1870-1909) developed a machine that gutted and cleaned salmon for canning 55 times faster than human workers. Most Northwest cannery workers were Chinese immigrants, and Smith, with "unselfconscious racism" (in the words of historian Carlos Schwantes), called his invention the "Iron Chink." The innovation increased cannery profits, but forced thousands of people to…
ID Number:2018.3.3.128
Date:Circa 1906
Audio recording
Oral history interview with Allison and David (Guy) Demmert, November 6, 2015
Interview with commercial fisherman David (Guy) and Allison Demmert conducted by Jeffrey Kahrs for the Commercial Fisherman Oral History Project on November 6, 2015. In the interview, the Demmert's discuss their careers fishing along the West Coast and in Southeast Alaska. Guy Demmert is a seine captain and Allison Demmert is a deckhand. Conversations include women skippering boats and fishing…
ID Number:2018.63.3
Date:2015
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Gunnar Gudjonssen, October 28, 2017
This interview with Icelandic American commercial fisherman Gunnar Gudjonssen was conducted by Jeffrey Kahrs for the Commercial Fishermen Oral History Project on October 28, 2017. In this interview, Gundjonssen discusses his life and career fishing along the West Coast and in Southeast Alaska.The photo shown here of Gunnar Gudjonssen was taken by the interviewer Jeffrey Kahrs at the time of…
ID Number:2018.63.7.2
Date:2017
Videorecording
Oral history interview with Bert Isaksen, November 18, 2016
This interview with commercial fisherman Bert Isaksen conducted by Jeffrey Kahrs for the Commercial Fishermen Oral History Project on November 18, 2016. In this interview, Isaksen talks about his life and career as a longline deckhand and captain and Alaskan crab deckhand, captain, and boat owner in Bristol Bay, Alaska.The photo shown here of Isaksen was taken by the interviewer…
ID Number:2018.63.9
Date:2016