Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
A guide to the Munsen family photographs and motion pictures, 1942-1950
P89-091 (SAFR 18589)
No online items
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Title: Munsen family photographs and motion pictures
Date: 1942-1950
Identifier/Call Number: P89-091 (SAFR 18589)
Creator:
Munsen family
Physical Description:
41 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
This collection is open for use unless otherwise noted.
Copyright transferred to the National Park Service. All uses are open and unrestricted. Credit San Francisco Maritime National
Historical Park.
Some material may be copyrighted or restricted. It is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other
case restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the collections.
The descriptions in this collection guide were compiled using the best available sources of information. Such sources include
the creator's annotations or descriptions, collection accession files, primary and secondary source material and subject matter
experts. While every effort was made to provide accurate information, in the event that you find any errors in this guide
please contact the reference staff in order for us to evaulate and make corrections to this guide.
Please cite the title and collection number in any correspondence with our staff.
[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], P89-091 (SAFR 18589), Munsen family photographs and motion pictures, San Francisco Maritime National Historical
Park
SAFR-00140
The collection was donated to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park by the Munsen family in 1989. Copyright transferred
to the National Park Service. All uses are open and unrestricted. Credit San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Historical or Biographical Note
The brothers Robert "Bob" B. Munsen (1913-1981) and Richard "Dick" A. Munsen (1917-1987) of Sacramento, Calif. raced hydroplane
speedboats as part of a post-war recreational pastime.
Munsen family photographs and motion picture films (P89-091, SAFR 18589) consists of 28 black-and-white photographic prints
and 13 reels of 8mm black-and-white and color, silent motion picture film of the Munsen family and their hydroplane raceboats
in California from circa 1942 to 1950. The films depict Dick and Bob Munsen, along with other family members and other racers,
racing hydroplanes on the California racing circuit in Napa, Marysville, San Francisco, Livermore, Butte City, Sacramento
and Los Gatos. Boats appearing in the films are the Munsen's C-211 "Maniac", C-171 and C-271.
The film has a total run time of 00:56:50.
Digital video available on the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/csfmm_00008 and digitized by the California
Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP).
Note from CAVPP during digitization of "Fogging from 00:26:00 to the end in part 1."
The collection is arranged in two series: 1. Photographic prints and 2. Motion picture film. Series 2 is arranged chronologically.