A Small Archive Of Photographs From Kodiak, Alaska

VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Publication: Individual Photographers, Ca 1930 - 1941, Kodiak

Various size black & white photographs, approximately 3 3/4" x 4 1/2," each one with captions in white ink in the body of the photograph. Twelve photographs and three photographic postcards from approximately 1930 through 1941. Produced by several noted photographers of the times, the photographs capture the history of early-20th-century Kodiak Island. Two of the images show the bodies of whales, surrounded by the crew of a whaling ship and on one of them, a man standing on top of the whale at Port Hobron. In the 1920s, there was a great resurgence of whaling in Kodiak, Alaska. During that decade, the American Pacific Whaling Company constructed Port Hobron, where whales were killed with bomb-loaded harpoons, pumped with air and dragged to shore, and butchered and used to produce oil, which was then sold to Proctor & Gamble. Port Hobron was even featured in travel brochures as a premiere destination to visit and observe whale hunting in the 1930s. Other photos depicted the Russian Church in Kodiak, a 10 1/2 ft. Kodiak Bear skin and the proud hunter, salmon fishermen, and so on. All photographs are in fine condition.

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