Extent:
37 photographs
Language(s):
English
Scope and Content Note
Items 058-093. Includes black-and-white and color photographs of various sizes, and color 35 mm negatives of various views
of ports, harbors and container ships at dock or loading and unloading. Several of the photographs have press releases attached.
Some of the photographs show aircraft as freight. Shipping companies that are represented include: Flying Tigers (Jet freighters),
Maersk Line, Atlantic Container Line, Hapag-Lloyd, and Matson Navigation Company. Locations include Alabama (Mobile); California
(Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland (Middle Harbor Container Terminal)); Florida (Miami); Georgia (Atlanta, Savannah); as well
as unknown locations.
Most of the photographs were taken by professional photographers and/or were distributed by the public relations office of
the shipping companies. Known photographers in this collection are: Hapag-Lloyd AG, Hamburg, Germany; California Photo Service,
Emeryville; Cantrell Photography, Mobile, Alabama; Camera Craft, Seattle, Washington; William Owyang Photography, San Francisco,
California.
This Series also includes one piece of glassine with five ink drawings of a freight container; a photograph of Thomas B. Crowley
addressing the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, New York; and photographs of the Georgia World Congress Center, host
to the 1986 International Intermodal Expo.
Folder List:
- Folder 05: Items 058-062: Atlanta, Georgia (Georgia World Congress Center).
- Folder 06: Items 063-065: Long Beach, California.
- Folder 07: Item 066: Los Angeles, California.
- Folder 08: Items 067-068: Miami, Florida.
- Folder 09: Items 069-071: Mobile, Alabama.
- Folder 10: Items 072-075: Oakland, California (HOEGE DENE (container ship); LURLINE (built 1973; container ship), Middle Harbor
Terminal, United States Line Terminal, American President Line/Sepac Container Service Terminal; Matson and Sea Land freight
containers).
- Folder 11: Items 076-080: Savannah, Georgia (MING OCEAN (built 1980; container ship), NEW YORK MARU OSAKA (container ship)).
- Folder 12: Items 081-087: Unidentified ports (AMERICAN NEW YORK (built 1984; container ship), HARBOR QUEEN (passenger vessel),
TANGE (container ship), HUMBOLT EXPRESS (built 1984; container ship)).
- Folder 13: Items 088-093: Flying Tiger fleet (air freight); Thomas B. Crowley at the Maritime Academy, New York; unidentified
man painting a freight container; freight container drawings.
Arrangement
Photographs were in no apparent order when received by processing staff. Staff grouped photographs of similar geographic locations
together, and then arranged them in alphabetical order according to geographic location. Unknown locations and miscellaneous
items were put at the end.