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Title: Commercial Studios photograph of Rosalie (built 1893; passenger vessel)
Date: 1893-1918
Identifier/Call Number: P17-001 (SAFR 24852)
Creator:
Commercial Studios
Physical Description:
1 item.
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: The Commercial Studios photograph of Rosalie (built 1893; passenger vessel), 1893-1918, (SAFR 24852, P17-001) is comprised
of a photograph of the Alameda built steamship ROSALIE underway. 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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Preferred Citation
[Item description], [Location within collection organization identified by Collection Number/Series Number/File Unit Number/Item
Number], P17-001 (SAFR 24852), Commercial Studios photograph of Rosalie (built 1893; passenger vessel), San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park
Acquisition Information
SAFR-02542
The photograph was donated to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park by Nancy Skinner in 2016.
Historical or Biographical Note
The steamship ROSALIE was built in 1893 by Charles G. White in Alameda, California.
John L. Davie operated ROSALIE as a ferry on San Francisco Bay. She left to run on Puget Sound and later made trips to Alaska
during the Klondike Gold Rush. She operated with the Northwestern Steamship Company, Alaska Steamship Company, and Puget Sound
Navigation Company. ROSALIE was destroyed by fire while laid up at Seattle, Washington, in 1918.
Collection Scope and Content
The Commercial Studios photograph of Rosalie (built 1893; passenger vessel), 1893-1918, (SAFR 24852, P17-001) is comprised
of a photograph of the Alameda built steamship ROSALIE underway. The collection has been processed to the Collection level
and is open for use.
Contains 1 black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in., of a starboard broadside view of ROSALIE (built 1893; passenger
vessel) underway with passengers on board, possibly while operating as a ferry in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1893-1918. There
is a Commercial Studios of Oakland, California, stamp on the verso. The following note is handwritten on the verso: "Steamer
'Rosalie' built by Chas. G. White at his shipyard at Alameda Point in 1893. Was built for a play boat for some Chicago money
men. Was later used for the 5 cent ferry called the Davie ferry. Later was sold to Seattle people; used as a freighter on
Puget Sound. Later burned at a dock in Seattle. [signed] George J. White."
Collection Arrangement
Single item.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Passenger ships
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Black-and-white prints (photographs)