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A guide to the General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipyard photograph, 1919-1923
P83-008 (SAFR 378)
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Title: General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipyard photograph
Date: 1919-1923
Identifier/Call Number: P83-008 (SAFR 378)
Creator:
General Engineering and Dry Dock Company
Physical Description:
2 items.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipyard photograph, 1919-1923, (SAFR 00378, P83-008) is comprised of a photograph
of MARTHA BUEHNER (built 1911; steam schooner) and LAKE FILBERT (built 1919; freighter) at General Engineering & Dry Dock
Company in Alameda, California. The collection has been processed to the Collection 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], P83-008 (SAFR 378), General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipyard photograph, San Francisco Maritime National
Historical Park
SAFR-00001
GOGA-00789, SAFR-02419
In January 1983 the photographic print was loaned for copying by Sara Conklin-Halaj, the Park's former registrar. A copy negative
was made and cataloged as P83-008 (accession SAFR-0001, GOGA-00789). Years later the photographic print was found in the collections
storage area. A post-it note adhered to the verso of the print read "Garage sale item. Made a print for myself. Original for
park." The print was accessioned as a field collection (SAFR-02419) in November 2015 and accrued to P83-008 in December 2015.
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
LAKE FILBERT, built in 1919 for the U.S. Shipping Board, was sold to the Alaska Steamship Company in 1922 or 1923 and renamed
NABESNA. A.M. SIMPSON, built in 1911 for the Simpson Lumber Company, was sold to the Buehner Lumber Company in 1916 and renamed
MARTHA BUEHNER.
The General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipyard photograph, 1919-1923, (SAFR 00378, P83-008) is comprised of a photograph
of MARTHA BUEHNER (built 1911; steam schooner) and LAKE FILBERT (built 1919; freighter) at General Engineering & Dry Dock
Company in Alameda, California. The collection has been processed to the Collection level and is open for use.
Contains a photograph of MARTHA BUEHNER (built 1911; steam schooner) hauled out for drydocking and LAKE FILBERT (built 1919;
freighter) in the water at the edge of a marine railway at the General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipyard in Alameda,
California, 1919-1923. There is 1 unique photographic image in 2 physical forms (1 black-and-white photographic print, 8 x
9.5 in., mounted on 8.5 x 9.5 in. board and 1 black-and-white copy negative, 5 x 7 in.). View off the port bow of MARTHA BUEHNER
on the left and bow view of LAKE FILBERT on the right. Other steamships and a three-masted schooner are among the vessels
docked in the background. Photographer's number G-133 is written in the lower right corner.
No arrangement due to the small size of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Shipyards
Dry Docks
General Engineering & Dry Dock Company
Alameda (Calif.)
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Black-and-white negatives