The Alaska State Archives has recently digitized a number of historic Department of Fish & Game photographs. It’s their objective to make these historic pictures available to assist researchers and further education about Alaska’s ecology and environment. The bulk of the more than 150 historic images scanned and placed online concern Alaskan fisheries. Photos from the 1930s to the 1960s document commercial and sport fishing practices, as well as cannery operations. Photos also include imagery of glaciers and the impacts on salmon streams/watersheds from commercial logging conducted during the 1950s in Southeast Alaska.
These photos can be accessed online from the below links. Thank you and we hope these photographs further education about the important work the Dept. of Fish & Game does in Alaska.
Dept. of Fish & Game (post-1959)
http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/
Fish & Wildlife Service (pre-1959)
http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/
For more information please contact:
Zachary R. Jones
Archivist II
Alaska State Archives
Division of Libraries, Archives, & Museums
Juneau, Alaska 99811-0525
zachary.jones@alaska.gov
