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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of a young boy posing with a salmon he caught off of a bridge in Ketchikan, Alaska. The boy stands at center and looks to the camera. He holds a large salmon down by his side. Onlookers surround him. About 4 boys of similar age stand around him on the right. An older boy leans against a rail behind and to the left of the boy that caught the salmon. Three men stand at the back of the group. Everyone stands on the pedestrian walkway of a bridge. It extends back through center. The arch of the bridge rises along the right side of the walkway. At left, a rail lines the edge of the elevated walkway. A building stands in the background at left. Text from negative sleeve: 2194. Alaska Trip. Ketchikan Sept.15,1946. 1. Aleutian coming to New England Fish Cannery. 2. Same, turning in channel 3. Same 4. Home and Printing Office of Alaska Sportsman. 5. Boy catches salmon from bridge. 6. New England Fish Co. 7. Their sign at dock 8. [handwritten:] POOR NEGATIVE OF OFS [sic] OF ALASKA SPORTSMAN + STREET CORNER [end handwritten]
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