Caption on image: N.W. Fisheries Co., Boca de Quadra, Alaska.   PH Coll 247.824<br>Boca de Quadra is an estuary which extends southwest for 34 miles from Keta River to Revillagigedo Channel.  It is a Spanish name meaning "estuary of Quadra" given in 1792 by Jacinto Caamano for Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra, who took part in expenditions and made surveys in southeast Alaska in 1775-1779.  This name was adopted by Capt. George Vancouver, who explored this estuary in 1793.
<ul><li>Subjects (LCTGM): Northwest Fisheries Company--Facilities--Alaska; (Boca de Quadra, Alaska); Bays (Bodies of water)--Alaska</li>
<li>Subjects (LCSH): Salmon canneries--Alaska--Boca de Quadra</li></ul>
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46211791" class="extiw" title="d:Q46211791"><span title="clerk for the US Railway Mail Service in Alaska">John E. Thwaites</span></a>
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://content.lib.washington.edu/thwaitesweb/index.html">John E. Thwaites Photographs of Alaska</a>