Here are photographs that show the history of fishing workers and their unions. Each image below leads to a separate photograph. Or view a searchable archive of fishing photos from the University of Washington Digital Collections.
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Other photos from UW Digital Collections:
- “Fishing boats moored at the public fisherman's dock, Salmon Bay, ca. 1914”
- “Fishermen's fleet at Salmon Bay, n.d.”
- Fishing fleet docked at Anacortes, showing nets and floats in foreground
- “ Fishermen taking salmon out of a fish trap or pound net, Columbia River, Washington, ca. 1897”
- “ Man with salmon catch, location unknown, n.d.”
- “ Salmon fishing, Willapa Bay, Washington, ca. 1897”
- “Fishermen hauling in a seine, Puget Sound, n.d.”
- “ Fishermen hauling in a salmon seine, Puget Sound, n.d.”
- “ Fishermen hauling in purse seine, Puget Sound, 1917”
- “ Fishermen horse seining for salmon on the Columbia River, n.d.”
- “ Fishermen aboard the boat OREGON hauling in purse seine, Puget Sound, ca. 1917”
- “Fishermen purse seining in Puget Sound, ca. 1917”
- “Fishermen hauling a salmon seine, Karluk, Alaska, June 1906”
- “Fishermen hauling a salmon seine, Karluk, Alaska, June 1906”
- “Cod fishing aboard commercial fishing boat, Alaska, n.d.”
- “ Fishermen gillnetting in the Nushagak River, Alaska, 1917”
- “ Fisherman hauling a cod trawl line by means of a net lifter aboard the power schooner UNION JACK, Alaska, May 1913”
- “ Fishermen hauling halibut on to the deck of a fishing vessel, Alaska, n.d.”
- “ Purse seining for herring, southeast Alaska, n.d.”
- “ Purse seining for herring, southeast Alaska, n.d.”
- “Purse seiners and crew at dock, Alaska, n.d.”
- “ Fishermen and halibut catch on dock, Alaska, n.d.”
- “Loading salted codfish onto boat, unidentified codfish station, Pavlof Harbor, Alaska, May 1913”
- “ Fishermen unloading codfish from fishing boats, unidentified codfish station at Pirate Cove, Alaska, June 1912”
- “ Fishwheel on the Taku River, Alaska. May 5, 1908”
- “ Fisherman with codfish catch, Pirate Cove, July 1913”
- “Fishermen dressing and packing halibut on dock, Ketchikan, Alaska, October 3, 1910”
- “Fishing boats at unidentified cannery, Alaska, Nushagak, 1917”
- “Fisherman emptying net full of herring into box, location unknown, n.d.”
- “Men on fishing boat brailing herring, Sitka, ca. 1930”
- “ Makah woman and fish drying on a rack, Neah Bay, ca. 1900”
- “ Lummimen trolling for salmon from canoe, near Bellingham, Washington, ca. 1900”
- “Tlingit Indians fishing, Boca de Quadra, Alaska, August 2, 1904”
- “ Makah couple haul canoe ashore after fishing, Neah Bay, Washington, 1900”
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/loc,1356
- “Indians fishing for salmon from platforms using gaffs or spears and dip nets at Celilo Falls, Oregon”
- “Boat returning with salmon from fish trap, or pound net, Columbia River, Washington, ca. 1897”
- “ Salmon fishermen on the Columbia River, Washington, ca. 1897”
- “Seine fishing for salmon on the Columbia River, n.d.”
- “Fishermen with their salmon catch on a Columbia River beach, probably Oregon, n.d.”
- “Fishermen seining for salmon on a Columbia River beach near Astoria, Oregon, n.d.”
- “Five boats with salmon catch being towed, vicinity of the lower Columbia River, ca. 1900”
- “Fishermen on beach harvesting salmon catch, vicinity of the lower Columbia River, ca. 1900”
- “ Fishermen salmon seining, probably British Columbia, n.d.”
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/indocc,492
- Run boats with salmon alongside GLORY OF THE SEAS, Alaska, August 19, 1911
- Crew of the ship GLORY OF THE SEAS with fish catch on deck, Alaska, August 19, 1911
- Fishermen unloading salmon from a lighter, Nushagak, Alaska, 1917
- Indians catching salmon in gill nets, probably in British Columbia
- Mechanized fish processing: a fish dressing machine
- Halibut fishermen setting the line from a dory on the Pacific halibut banks off the Alaska coast
- San Juan Fishing and Packing Co., Seattle
- Fishermen raising a salmon-filled net from a fish trap, probably Puget Sound area
- Fishing boat, closing a purse sein
- Two women at Apex Fish Co., Anacortes, preparing cans for steam cooker, 1913
- B.A. Seaborg and Co.'s Cannery interior showing Chinese cannery workers, Columbia River, Washington, ca. 1897
- Slimers at work at Apex Fish Co., Anacortes
- Mending nets at Fishermen's Terminal dock, Salmon Bay, Seattle
- Crab fisherman fishing from a rowboat in Puget Sound waters
- Reef netting for salmon near Point Roberts
- Working with a net aboard a fishing vessel
- Cannery crew, Wards Cove Packaging Co., Ketchikan, Alaska, 1940
- Cannery employees operating machinery inside a fish cannery, ca. 1952
- Cannery employee working inside a fish cannery, ca. 1952
- Cannery worker filling tuna cans, Los Angeles Cannery Co., Long Beach, Ca., n.d.
- Cannery worker making boxes, Clarks Point, Nushagak Bay, Alaska, 1918
- Cannery workers at the Sea Beach Packing Works, Copalis, Washington, 1915
- Cannery workers, unidentified cannery interior, Pacific Coast, n.d.
- Cannery workers, Apex Fish Co., Seattle, Washington, 1913
- Cannery workers, unidentified cannery, Pacific Coast, n.d.
- Chinese workers operating machinery in fish cannery, Bellingham, n.d.
- Female cannery employees working inside a fish cannery, ca. 1952
- Filipino cannery workers at harbor, Alitak, Kodiak Island, 1937
- Interior of salmon cannery, Puget Sound, Washington, ca. 1906
- Interior view of processing room with mainly female workers in mob hats sitting and processing fish at a canning line, South Coast Canning Co., Long Beach, California., ca. 1920's
- Salmon catch on unidentified fish cannery floor, probably Washington, ca. 1913
- Workers at the smokehouse of the Whatcom Fish Products Co., Bellingham, September 1916
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