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A guide to the Alexander Woodside photograph collection, 1890-1925
P77-025 (SAFR 24821)
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Title: Alexander Woodside photograph collection
Date: 1890-1925
Identifier/Call Number: P77-025 (SAFR 24821)
Creator:
Woodside, Alexander, II
Physical Description:
20 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Alexander Woodside photograph collection, circa 1890-1925, (SAFR 24821, P77-025) is comprised of photographs related to
Captain Alexander Woodside, James Eillott Woodside, and the Pacific States Trading Company codfish processing station at Elliot
Cove, California. The collection has been processed to the Item level and is open for use.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], P77-025 (SAFR 24821), Alexander Woodside photograph collection, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
SAFR-00001
GOGA-00789
On December 5, 1977, Alexander Woodside II loaned a photograph album, a chart, and four photographic prints to the San Francisco
Maritime Museum. SFMM made 13 copy negatives. Prints were made from some of the copy negatives.
SAFR-00001 is a blanket accession that was transferred from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) to the San Francisco
Maritime National Historical Park in September 1988. GGNRA had previously acquired the collection from the San Francisco Maritime
Museum when it became a unit of the National Park Service in 1977.
GOGA-00789 was transferred from the J. Porter Shaw Library to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) in February
1985.
Historical or Biographical Note
This collection does not include a historical or biographical note.
The Alexander Woodside photograph collection, circa 1890-1925, (SAFR 24821, P77-025) is comprised of photographs related to
Captain Alexander Woodside, James Eillott Woodside, and the Pacific States Trading Company codfish processing station at Elliot
Cove, California. The collection has been processed to the Item level and is open for use.
Contains photographs of codfishing schooners, crew, and Woodside family members at the Pacific States Trading Company codfish
processing station located at Elliot Cove, California, in the Craquinez Strait, circa 1890-1925. There are 13 unique photographic
images in 20 physical forms (14 black-and-white copy negatives and 6 black-and-white photographic copy prints).
Includes photographs of Captain Alexander Woodside, president of the Pacific States Trading Company, and his son James Eillott
Woodside. Also includes photographs of OTTILLIE FJORD (built 1892; schooner, 3m) docked at Eillot Cove and her crewmembers
unloading cod. Other vessels photographed in the collection are TAURUS (built 1902; schooner, 4m), CAROLYN FRANCES (built
1918; schooner, 3m), and possibly the crew of C.T. HILL (built 1889; schooner, 2m).
Arranged into two File Units: File Unit 1. Classified collection items; File Unit 2. Photo collection items.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pacific cod fisheries
Schooners
Pacific States Trading Company
Carquinez Strait (Calif.)
Black-and-white negatives
Black-and-white prints (photographs)