The NN Cannery History Project is a grassroots public history endeavor that, through the historical lens of work, aims to share the oft-forgotten stories of the multitudes of people who canned salmon in Alaska and created an ethnically diverse, economically vital, cannery culture.
The Project is a collaboration between multiple groups to preserve, collect and share the stories of the diverse, and often invisible, cannery workers whose activities are reflected by and embedded in the industrial landscape contained within the 128-year-old <NN> Cannery at South Naknek, Alaska.
We Can Do it together
Trident Seafoods
National Park Service
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Bristol Bay Borough School District
Alaska State Museum
Alaska Association for Historic Preservation
Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust
State Historic Preservation Office
Tundra Vision
See Stories
Sea Level Consulting
Steelbird Productions
LaRece Construction
Bristol Bay Borough
Martin Monsen Library
South Naknek Library
Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation
Naknek Native Village Council
King Air
Alaska Eagle Eye
Bristol Bay Historical Society Museum
University of Alaska Anchorage Engineering Department
UAF Bristol Bay Campus
Andrew Abyo
Denise Statz
Katmai Conservancy
KDLG
Burt Smith
The Pit
Carvel Zimin
Shirley Zimin
Egli Air Haul
Roxanne Shade
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Alaska Packers Association Museum
Keira’s Bed & Breakfast
Bristol Bay Native Corporation Education Foundation

St. Louis World Fair Exhibit.

1968 Plat of Alaska Packers Association NN Cannery Campus.
Bob King interviewing Gary Johnson

Student Senen Torino interview with Natty Boskovsy.
"It is important work to preserve Alaska’s heritage, and the [NN Cannery History Project] recognizes your commitment to documenting our great state’s history of cultural diversity and development. By bringing light to the historical significance of Alaska’s canneries, your project will have lasting impact for the community and for the country."
Dan Sullivan | United States Senator
A view of the hallway in the NN Cannery Hospital that was most recently utilized as a women's bunkhouse.

A view looking northeast at the Diamond NN cannery at South Naknek in the late 1930s or 1940s.
Sharon Thompson documenting a conversation between Bob King, John Wachtel and Katie Ringsmuth.



