Between Catch & Can:
Tuna Cannery Women of San Pedro, CA
& the Los Angeles Harbor, 1930-1960
work ~ culture ~ community
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| At the heart of the canning process, women clean and fillet tuna at the French Sardine Cannery. Founded in 1917, the cannery became Star-Kist and grew to be the largest fish cannery in the world. ~ Bogdanovich Family Collection, permission pending |
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| An Invitation & About the Exhibit
THIS EXHIBIT IS AN INVITATION to see women, particularly from recent immigrant families, as integral parts of a successful western American commercial endeavor.
THE CANNERY WOMEN AT WORK EXHIBIT is separated into four sections with excerpts from oral histories included throughout:
CANNERY WOMEN AT WORK invites the viewer into the canneries;
COMMUNITY offers history of the area and places the canneries into a community;
CONSUMER & KITCHEN briefly discusses the impact of prepared food in post-World War II America; and
RESOURCES offers further reading, a classroom exercise, and introduces four former cannery employees.
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to the Matich Family,
Thank you for so generously sharing your private collection.
This project is dedicated to
Goldie, Margie, Mary, and Tina
and to all the cannery women of the Los Angeles Harbor.
Their dedicated labor powered the Terminal Island Fish Canning Industry.
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