Fisherman’s Sweatshirt
date: label: date made
content: ca 2007
name: label: maker
content: Alaska Ship Supply
notes: label: Description
content: This heavyweight, extra-large hooded sweatshirt was worn by one of the deck hands working aboard the <I>Alaska Ocean</I> catcher-processer in 2007. It features the logo of the Alaska Ship Supply store in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, a major commercial fishing port at the end of the Aleutian Chain. Although the <I>Alaska Ocean</I>’s home port is now Seattle (it was formerly Anacortes, Washington), Dutch Harbor serves as the vessel’s home base during the months it operates in the Bering Sea.
label: Description
content: The 125-person crew of the <I>Alaska Ocean</I> is at sea for several weeks at a time, and they look forward to reaching Dutch Harbor where they unload the frozen fish products and resupply the ship. The captain and crew can take care of personal business while in port as well, and stores like Alaska Ship Supply cater to their needs by selling clothing, supplies, marine hardware, groceries, postage, and other items.
label: Description
content: The <I>Alaska Ocean</I> is a 376-foot-long vessel in the Seattle-based catcher-processor fleet. Workers catch, process, package, and freeze groundfish—mostly pollock and Pacific whiting—in the Bering Sea and in the waters off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. The vessel can harvest about 325 metric tons of fish per day and can freeze over 250,000 pounds of fish product daily.
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Dutch Harbor
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Contemporary United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Natural Resources
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alaska Ocean through Jeff Hendricks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0178.06
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0178.06
label: accession number
content: 2007.0178
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sweatshirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: polyester (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 41 in x 64 in x 3 1/2 in; 104.14 cm x 162.56 cm x 8.89 cm