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industries and occupations photographs ask us digital collections toggle navigation browse special collections exhibits guides ordering use search advanced search home industries and occupations photographs industries and occupations photographs browse collection sample searches agriculture metalworking brickyards fishing and canning fur trapping logging and lumber mining oystering and clamming photography printing and paper road construction shipping and shipbuilding surveying other resources the evergreen state in black and white northwest of the west the frontier experience on the northwest coast fisherman landing salmon with pole 1907 an ongoing and expanding collection devoted to the workers in the pacific northwest from the 1880s to the 1940s many occupations and industries are represented including the logging and lumber industry shipping fisheries oystering canning and agriculture industries and occupations is an ongoing digital collection of photographs documenting the workers of the pacific northwest and alaska primarily from the 1880s to the 1940s included are images of the logging and lumber industry shipping fisheries oystering and canning agriculture blacksmithing bridge building and road construction coal and gold mining the activities of photographers at work linotype operators and fur trappers are also represented because we will be on occasion adding new images to the digital collection the database will be updated periodically in addition our cataloging staff will continue to supplement the metadata attached to each image as new research alters the descriptive records about the database the information for industries and occupations photographs was researched and prepared by the uw libraries special collections division and cataloging staff in 2000 not all the photographs from the collection were included in this database the images were scanned in grayscale using a microtek scanmaker 9600l and saved in jpg format some manipulation of the images was done to present the clearest possible digital image the scanned images were then linked with descriptive data using the uw content program the original collection resides in the uw libraries special collections division as the industries and occupations collection back to top please be aware that some materials in our collections contain some content that may be harmful or difficult to view contact us how to search make a gift privacy terms of use report a barrier university of washington libraries