Letters of Lester J. Burbidge, 1928.

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Letters of Lester J. Burbidge, 1928.

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Holograph letters written to his family in Chicago during the summer of 1928 while he was working at the New England Fish Company on Knight Island, Alaska;

10 letters.

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New England Fish Company

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The New England Fish Company (NEFCO) was founded in 1868 when eleven wholesale fish dealers met in Boston, Massachusetts, for the purpose of systematically marketing the catch of halibut fishermen. Initially, NEFCO established a system of cooperative buying and distribution. In the 1880s, as both the company's growth and the demand for halibut accelerated, NEFCO's attention was drawn to the waters of the Pacific Northwest. Aided by the development of railroad lines, expansion on the West Coast w...

Burbidge, Lester J., 1902-1994.

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While a student at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, he and a fraternity brother shipped out of Seattle on the Alaskan steamer "Yukon" as contract laborers for the New England Fish Co. salmon cannery; after graduation he taught and coached in Ohio schools, in 1948 he went into the Regular Army, Military Police Corps, after retirement from the military, he returned to teaching and administrative positions in California's public education system, he died Jan. 25, 1994. From the desc...