A guide to the Viktor Aagaard photographs, 1940-1946

Processed by: L. Bianchi, October 2014.

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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2015

A Guide to the Viktor Aagaard photographs

P00-007

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, National Park Service

2015, National Park Service

Title: Viktor Aagaard photographs

Date: 1940-1946

Identifier/Call Number: P00-007 (SAFR 24263)

Creator: Aagaard, Viktor

Physical Description: 33 items.

Repository: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department

Building E, Fort Mason

San Francisco, CA 94123

Abstract: The Viktor Aagaard photographs, 1940-1946, (SAFR 24263, P00-007) are comprised of photographs of cargo ships and U.S. Navy vessels in the San Francisco Bay Area, 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.

Access

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Processing Note

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Preferred Citation

[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item Number], P00-007 (SAFR 24263), Viktor Aagaard photographs, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Acquisition Information

SAFR-01479

The grandson of Viktor Aagaard, sent the photographs to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in 1996. They were formally accessioned by the Park in 2000.

Historical or Biographical Note

Viktor M. J. Aagaard (March 14, 1888 - June 6, 1946) was an X-ray technician at St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco, California. Born in Denmark, he immigrated to the United States in 1906. During World War I he served as an X-ray technician at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. He relocated to San Francisco in the late 1910s/early 1920s. His hobby was photography.

Sources:

Ancestry.com. California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1895-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Correspondence from Earl M. J. Aagaard in the collection file for P00-007.

Collection Scope and Content

The Viktor Aagaard photographs, 1940-1946, (SAFR 24263, P00-007) are comprised of photographs of cargo ships and U.S. Navy vessels in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. The collection has been processed to the Collection level and is open for use.

Contains photographs by Viktor Aagaard of cargo ships and U.S. Navy vessels underway on San Francisco Bay and docked along the waterfront of San Francisco, California, 1940-1946. There are 33 color slides (2 x 2 in.). Aagaard used a pre-World War II Leica camera to take the photographs.

Photographs

Item 01. Cargo ship underway, port broadside view. Possibly MAYA.
Items 02-03. MORMACTERN (built 1942; cargo ship) docked, view off the starboard bow.
Item 04. PACIFIC QUEEN (built 1886; ship, 3m) docked, view off the starboard quarter.
Items 05-06. Cargo ship docked, view off the starboard bow, with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background. A U.S. Navy sailor is in view in Item 06.
Item 07. Cargo ship underway, view off the starboard bow, with a tugboat alongside.
Item 08. Cargo ship detail view including the stack. Possibly ALCOA PATRIOT (built 1941; cargo ship).
Item 09. ALCOA PATRIOT (built 1941; cargo ship) docked, view off the starboard bow.
Item 10. Unidentified vessel docked. Possibly a U.S. Navy barge with a two- or three-story structure on top.
Item 11. PRESIDENT TAFT (built 1945; cargo ship) docked, view off the port bow.
Item 12. LT-370 (built 1944; tugboat: U.S. Army) docked, bow view.
Item 13. Cargo ship underway, starboard broadside view.
Item 14. Cargo ship docked, view off port bow.
Item 15. Ferry passing under the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Distant view.
Items 16-17. DENNIS T. SULLIVAN (built 1909; fireboat) and two cargo ships docked with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background.
Item 18. Cargo ship underway past Yerba Buena Island. On the island are large white letters that spell out, "HI MATES - GREAT WORK."
Item 19. U.S. Navy airship in flight.
Item 20. Cargo ship docked, bow view. A young boy is standing in the foreground with his back to the camera.
Items 21-23. SOUTH DAKOTA (built 1941; battleship: U.S. Navy) docked. Alcatraz Island is in the background of Item 23.
Items 24-25. PA-95 (cargo ship) docked.
Items 26. PA-12 (cargo ship) docked, view off the starboard bow as seen from an elevation.
Items 27-28. Dressed U.S. Navy warship docked, bow view as seen from an elevation. Numerous people are on board. A cargo ship is underway in the background of Item 27.
Item 29. Aircraft carrier docked. Possibly BON HOMME RICHARD (built 1944; aircraft carrier: U.S. Navy).
Item 30-31. U.S. Navy vessel, showing radar equipment on the mast.
Item 32. Cargo ship underway, distant view off the port quarter.
Item 33. U.S. Navy aircraft carrier underway, distant view. Mile Rock lighthouse is in the middle distance.

Collection Arrangement

No arrangement due to the small size of the collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Cargo ships

Warships

Government vessels--United States

San Francisco (Calif.)

San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)

Color slides