Preparing to Brail a Floating Fish Trap, circa 1930

Elliot L. Fisher

In 1933, Elliot Fisher produced a series of photographs depicting every stage of the salmon packing process, from working on a fish trap to loading cases of canned salmon aboard a freighter for shipment. He displayed the photos in the window of his Front Street camera shop, under the sign, "F-I-S-H spells prosperity." Some time after Fisher left Ketchikan in 1934, Alfred Milotte, who had purchased Fisher Sudio, reproduced the photos as postcards.

Ketchikan Museums: Tongass Historical Society Collection, THS 61.8.1.470