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| Keywords: Hunter's collection of brown bear pelts near Sand Point, ca 1912 (THWAITES 87).jpeg check categories 27 October 2016 3 Bales Sand Point is located on Humboldt Harbor on Popof Island off the Alaska Peninsula 570 air miles from Anchorage Sand Point was founded in 1898 by a San Francisco fishing company as a trading post and cod fishing station Aleuts from surrounding villages and Scandinavian fishermen were the first residents of the community Sand Point served as a repair and supply center for gold mining during the early 1900s but fish processing became the dominant activity in the 1930s The St Nicholas Chapel a Russian Orthodox church was built in 1933 and is now on the National Register of Historical Places Aleutian Cold Storage built a halibut plant in 1946 Today it is home to the largest fishing fleet in the Aleutian Chain Caption on image Skins of 12 brown bears shot near Sand Point Alaska by 2 hunters PH Coll 247 187 Subjects LCTGM Hides skins--Alaska--Sand Point; Bear hunting--Alaska; Subjects LCSH Brown bear--Alaska--Sand Point; Hunters--Alaska--Sand Point depicted place Sand Point Alaska ca 1912 Institution University of Washington UWASH-THWAITES-source accession number thwaites 87 PD-old-auto-1923 1940 Information field Order Number THW102 Images from the John E Thwaites Photographs of Alaska Collection to check Bear hunting Hunters Sand Point Alaska | ||||
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