Silver print photographs, created for news articles and photo essays, that document tribal fishing sites and practices in and around Washington and Oregon. Focus on Celilo Falls shortly before The Dalles Dam obliterated the sacred fishing grounds and the tide pools of La Push on the Quillayute River. Most with photographer's credit, date stamp, and affixed caption on verso. Many of the images were taken for The Seattle Times by local photographers Roy Wolfe, Josef Scaylea, and R. B. Kolsbun. Other credited photographers include Ruth Kirk, Vic Condiotty, Dell Mulkey, Bob and Ira Spring, Larry Dion, and John W. Thompson.

Several photos show white water fishing at Celilo Falls on the edges of wooden scaffolds built off of the rock walls and the aerial cars used to transport the catch. Also included are several photographs of the smelt fishing in La Push. On the banks of the Quillayute River, Kalalock fisherman wait to net silver smelt, looking out for the seagulls to signal an approaching school. Commercial fishing boats and reef netting was a major source of food and income for local tribes. Silver smelt, a species unique to the area, are seen being pulled out of the water by the dozen, packed in fine sands, and shipped by trucks. They are also shown being dried for the winter and the excess sold.

One image shows men watching others fish from a safe distance on the rocky face of the falls. Another shows the women who stay back to prepare the fish for drying and smoking in the canvas huts. Children also participate: a young Klickitat girl is pictured with two sockeyes that run the length of her entire torso strapped to her back and in a similar photo, a young boy holds two 30 pound salmon by his waist. A number of prominent tribal members are depicted in the photographs such as former Quilayute Chief Charles Howeattle, Chief Alex Saluskin, Oscar Ough of the Yakima Agency, and Frank Sohappy. One photograph shows activist Janet McCloud at her typewriter, holding her daughter in one arm and protest letters in the other.

Dip-net fishing in the Columbia River Gorge was a source of income for the local community. One affixed news article from The Seattle Times describes it as one of the area's "greatest tourist attractions," evidenced by motorists pictured purchasing fish on the side of the road.