Collection:
Juneau—Douglas City Museum
Object ID:
2009.37.046
Accession#:
2009.37
Credit Line:
Transferred from the City and Borough of Juneau.
Object Name:
Records
Title:
Douglas Island Packing Company/City of Douglas records
Year Range from:
1918
Year Range to:
1933
Scope & Content:
Folder contains documents regarding the Douglas Island Packing Company. Records show a dispute between the Packing Company and the City of Douglas over the lease of the city wharf. Coorespondence includes letters to the city requesting maintenance to docks and pilings. Also included are indentures between the city and the Packing Company about leases. Records also show back taxes that were due to the city from the Packing Company. It appears that the city won the dispute and the Douglas Island Packing Company's creditors seized the property and equipment.
Dates of Creation:
1819
People:
Gray, Felix
Long, J.H.
Morgan, C.P.
Feero, W.E.
White, Albert
Harding, Justin W.
Feusi, John
Kilburn, L.W.
Dudden, E.B.
Sutherland, D.A.
Hedemark, George
Search Terms:
Fisheries
Cannery
Douglas
Archival
Records
City
Docks
Correspondence
Court
Douglas
Construction
Telegraph
First National Bank
Business
Subjects:
Property lease records
inventory
legal records
tax information
Alaska Coast Fish Company
Douglas City Dock
Revenue statements
maintenance to docks and pilings
expenditures
Canned salmon shipment information
Ellson Packing Company
First National Bank
Tax records
business coorespondence
Buereau of fisheries
Seward Fish Company
Continental Can Company
wharf
herring
salmon