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Watun Cannery

Author/Photographer Phillips, H.B.

Donor Phillips/Dalzell

Date1940

MediumPrint

Dimensions6.1 × 8.7 cm (2 3/8 × 3 7/16 in.)

ClassificationsPhotographs

Terms

Canneries

Object numberPh 02309

DescriptionBlack and white photo of abandoned cannery buildings which was bought by H.B Phillips at a government tax sale. Material sold to Nelson Bros.. Phillips had originally planned on building a seed extraction plant but the war intervened. Some people still living at cannery site including Rolf Stafford, Dick Colhurs, & George Olsen.

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