2 items SALMON CANNERY AT LORING, ALASKA Antique Fisheries prints 1897

Description: Steamer Albatross of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries mission to Alaska for the purpose of study of The Salmon Fishery 2 items. Authentic original antique prints showing, Plate 7. "CANNERY AT LORING" & Plate 38. "CANNERY AT LORING". Measure approx. 7.25x10.5 inches. Published in "Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission XVIII" for 1898. Washington Government Printing Office, 1899. George M. Bowers, Commissioner. Very good + condition. "Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission" and "The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States" are multi-volume works by George Goode and multiple United States Fisheries commissioners. This is an original antique NOT a reproduction. All items are shipped shrink wrapped flat on acid free backing. . R/V Albatross I, 1882-1921 Steamer Albatross of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. In the year 1881, at the suggestion of Commissioner Spencer Fullerton Baird, Congress authorized an appropriation totaling $148,000 for the construction of the vessel. Plans were drawn by Charles W. Copeland of New York and a contract for construction was awarded to Pusey & Jones of Wilmington, Delaware. The keel was laid in March 1882, the ship was launched in August, and she made her trial run on December 30. From 1884 to 1887 she continued work in the Northwest Atlantic and in the Caribbean, making intensive dredging surveys and hydrographic stations. In March 1887 she was sent to the Pacific to investigate the fisheries of Alaska. She worked in these waters for three years investigating the fishery resources and fishing grounds of the Northeastern Pacific and Bering Sea, and in conducting hydrographic work. She was assigned particularly to the study of salmon, the Pribilof Islands' seal herds, and halibut.-Fisheries.Noaa

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