. English: Hunter's collection of brown bear pelts near Sand Point, ca. 1912 . English: 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
. English: Hunter's collection of brown bear pelts near Sand Point, ca. 1912 . English: 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 Subjects (LCTGM): Hides & skins--Alaska--Sand Point; Bear hunting--Alaska; Subjects (LCSH): Brown bear--Alaska--Sand Point; Hunters--Alaska--Sand Point . circa 1912 54 Hunter's collection of brown bear pelts near Sand Point, ca 1912 (THWAITES 87)
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