Petersburg, Alaska, 1915 – Vintage Photo Print
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This rare historic image captures Petersburg, Alaska, 1915 in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Petersburg, Alaska, 1915
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Petersburg, Alaska, in 1915 was a small Norwegian-settled fishing town on Mitkof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska. Its economy rested on the salmon and herring fisheries and the canneries and fish-processing work that followed them, and seasonal crews of fishermen and cannery workers swelled the population each summer. Alaska had become a territory only in 1912, so local life was shaped by territorial politics and by the steamships that linked the town to Seattle and to other Inside Passage ports. The waterfront, where boats were built, unloaded, and repaired, was the center of daily activity, and residents would have known Petersburg first as a fishing harbor set among the islands and channels of the Wrangell Narrows.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alaska |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 4,261 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AK Petersburg 1915 |
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