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Metadata
Title |
Ketchikan Packing Company, the former Beagle Packing Company also it opperated as Beagle Packing Company 1941-1942 |
Image # |
70.12.5.5 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Date |
1947 circa |
Photographer |
Johanson, Sixten |
Location |
Ketchikan, Alaska |
Description |
Ketchikan Packing Company, the former Beagle Packing Company also it operated as Beagle Packing Company 1941-1942 In 1931 Ketchikan Packing Co., the second of that name, was purchased from a failed operation (Sunrise Packing) by Frank Lloyd and associated independent trap owners. The cannery owned two traps and had cooperative arrangements with the owners of five others. The buildings were a part of the former Waterfront Storage. Ketchikan Packing made a practice of local hire, employing in 1935 125 Ketchikan residents. Lloyd's testimony before the U.S. House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee in 1936 reported the following expenditures in the Territory for 1935: $15,846.94 for merchandise, logs, wire, piling, etc.; $77,088.08 to fishermen; $41,505.70 for labor; $13,290.85 for Federal and Territorial taxes. 82,000 cases were packed in 1935, operating a one-pound line and a half-pound line, running one line at a time. The Beegle Packing Company closed during the 1941 and 1942 seasons, reopening under the ownership of the Ketchikan Packing Company which used the space for storage. Duplicate image with less background: 77.2.7.122 |
Print size |
20.5 cm x 25.20 cm |
People |
Johanson, Sixten |
Search Terms |
Ketchikan, Alaska Ketchikan Ketchikan Packing Company Northern Machine Works Waterfront Newtown Newtown Waterfront Cannery Waterfront Storage |
Credit line |
Ketchikan Museums: Tongass Historical Society Collection, THS 70.12.5.5 |