Monterey history photo collection

California Views:
The Pat Hathaway Photo Collection

Pat Hathaway, Photo Archivist


Monterey's Sardines Fishing Industry

Monterey Bay sardines fishing
Monterey Fishing pictorial collection
City of Monterey
Photo Accession CV # # 81-021-0018
George Robinson Photo
4x5 Film Neg
Circa 1948


The happy crew of the purse seiner City of Monterey brailing sardines into the hold after a long nights of fishing.
She was built in 1937 by Anderson & Cristofani, San Francisco
Fishing boats with names like, A. A. Ferrante, Adventure, American Eagle, City of Monterey, California Bear, California Rose California Star, Cerrito Bros, C.R. Martinolich, E.S. Lucido, Diana, Dux, Geraldine-Ann, U.S. Liberator, Lina V, Lucky Boy, Mineo Bros, New Crivello, New Hope, New Marettimo, New Rex, New Roma, North Star, Star of Monterey, Pacific Star, Providenza, El Cerrito, Western Explorer, Western Flyer, Western Maid, and Vitina A, U. S. Liberator, Yankee Clipper
at one time fished in Monterey Bay. Just to name a few in our photo collection.

Early Monterey Fishing industry Gallery and photos of Cannery Row in it's hayday, and Cannery Row from the 1960 to today.
We also have photos of Salmon fising in Monterey Bay.
Photos by Pat Hathaway of fishing in Monterey today.


And photos of other purse seiners from the Monterey fishing fleet.

Holdings: over 1000 photos of Monterey's Fishing Industry and Cannery Row from 1890-2010
Holdings: over 21,500 Photos of Monterey County listed in our database.
And over 81,900 historical California images in our photo archives.

A list of books , magazines and television programs that have used photos from the photo collection.
Please click to see over 170 Searchable California Photo galleries with over 9,200 photos, Prints are available in Black & White or Sepia.
All images are also available for editorial downloads and onetime editorial use.
Please keep checking back as we will be adding more galleries
This page was last updated on Fabruary 1, 2012
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