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A guide to the Leale family photograph album, 1914
P95-046 (SAFR 24438)  
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Description
The Leale family photograph album (P95-046, SAFR 24438) consists of a single volume of black-and-white photographs bound in an album and attributed to the family of Captain John Leale.
Background
John Leale (1850-1932) was born on the Isle of Guernsey and came to San Francisco in 1864. He married Fanny A. Cheney in 1881. They had two daughters, Marion W. and Edith. Leale was at the helm of San Francisco ferryboats from 1873-1914, "the Golden Age of ferries on the Bay." Leale was in his prime during the zenith of ferry service in the late 19th Century, and he played an important role in the relief effort after the 1906 earthquake. He made some 125,000 round trips across the Bay during his career. Hog Davis hired Leale as the South Pacific Coast's (SPC) first ferryboat captain. At one time or another, Leale captained all four of the SPC boats – NEWARK, BAY CITY, GARDEN CITY and ENCINAL. He also served as an agent of the Department of the Shipping Board for San Francisco and San Pedro during World War I. As head of the Service Bureau, he signed on more than 10,000 officers and crew. Biographical material taken from the Shipping Register, September 29, 1919 and May 25, 1920, and San Francisco Bay Crossings.com, "A South Pacific Coast Bibliography," by Randy Hees, http://www.baycrossings.com and http://home.netcom.com/~hees/NRRWGauge/SPCbib.htmlO, respectively, accessed September 14, 2007.
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1 item.
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