A guide to the L. Christian Norgaard photographs, circa 1954-1995

Boxes 1-2; Box 3, Folders 1-3

Series 01. Consulting work, circa 1954-1970

Extent: 18 folders

Scope and Content Note

Contains photograph albums and loose photographs of vessels that Norgaard worked on as a consulting naval architect.

Biography/Organization History

L. Christian Norgaard was a consulting naval architect from 1947-1970 in San Francisco, where he designed and supervised the construction of over 100 vessels.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by vessel type. File unit titles are based on the categories Norgaard used on the section of his resume for consulting work (cargo vessels, passenger vessels, public vessels, tugs and towboats, replicas and restorations).

Box 1, Folders 1-6

File Unit 01. Cargo vessels, circa 1959-1970s

Extent: 6 folders (2 photograph albums, 1 folder of album pages and 3 loose photographs).

Scope and Content Note

Contains photograph albums and loose photographs of cargo vessels that Norgaard worked on as a consultant. Includes several photographs of L. Christian Norgaard.

Box 1, Folders 1-3

Item No. 01. Cargo vessels photograph album, circa 1959-1970s

Extent: 3 folders.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original brown album was unlabeled.

Scope and Content Note

Article about RICE QUEEN (bulk carrier), February 1, 1965, and many black-and-white and color photographs of the RICE QUEEN (interior and exterior). Article about the SS PENN CHALLENGER (tanker) in August 1959 at Bethlehem's shipyard in San Francisco (one of largest vessels ever constructed on the Pacific Coast). Black-and-white photographs of the MOKUHANA (interior, exterior, group shots on board including L.C. Norgaard). Articles about M/V KOMOKU, Bay and River Navigation Co.'s newest work boat, designed by L.C. Norgaard & Associates, entered service on August 9, 1967, also some black-and-white photographs of external views. Color photographs of Chevron Tanker model test (circa 1970s?). Black-and-white photograph of ALASKA STANDARD. Black-and-white photographs of LAS PLUMAS (built 1957; railroad car ferry), internal and external views, people on board, several articles. Color photographs of unidentified vessel (possibly the BLUE WAVE (ex KOMOKU) since there is an article about the BLUE WAVE following the photographs).

Box 1, Folder 4

Item No. 02. Komoku (built 1938; cargo ship) photographs, 1967 April 19

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album pages. While at one time these pages appear to have been part of an album, they were housed with other loose photographs after they were separated from HDC 1294.

Scope and Content Note

Group photographs on the day of the vessel's launch into the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Includes photographs of L.C. Norgaard.

Related Material

There are other photographs from the KOMOKU launch in Box 1, Folders 2-3.

Box 1, Folder 4

Item No. 02.09. Group portrait of L. Christian Norgaard and six other unidentified men at the launch of Komoku (built 1967; cargo vessel), 1967 April 19

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: 1 black-and-white photographic print, 4 x 5 in.

Scope and Content Note

The men are wearing suits and some are holding drinks. The seven are standing in a line. Norgaard is the third from the right. There are people standing in view in the background.

Box 1, Folder 4

Item No. 02.28. Group portrait of L. Christian Norgaard and four unidentified people at the launch of the Komoku (built 1967; cargo vessel), 1967 April 19

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: 1 black-and-white photographic print, 4 x 5 in.

Scope and Content Note

Norgaard is standing on the left. There are three other women and one man in the photograph.

Box 1, Folder 5

Item No. 03. Mokuhana (built 1953; freighter) photograph album, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original brown album labeled "Enterprise. A subsidiary of general metals corporation"

Scope and Content Note

MOKUHANA dry docked and in water, one photo in the San Francisco Bay with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background, interior and exterior shots.

Box 1, Folder 5

Item No. 03.05. Mokuhana (built 1953; freighter) underway, circa 1960s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in. "53-446," is typed on the front of the photograph.

Scope and Content Note

Stem view of the vessel underway with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and fog in the background.

Box 1, Folder 6

Item No. 04. Mokuhana (built 1953; freighter) photographs, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder (3 photographs).

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographs, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

Contains two photographs that are duplicates of ones in the MOKUHANA photograph album and one photograph of six people on the gangplank, one of whom is L.C. Norgaard

Box 1, Folder 6

Item No. 04.01. L. Christian Norgaard and group posed ready to go aboard Mokuhana (built 1953; freighter), circa 1960s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

Norgaard is standing on gangplank of the vessel. He is on the left. There is one woman and a man next to him on the stairs. Three men are standing below on the dock. The men are all wearing suits, some wearing hats. The MOKUHANA name is seen painted on the vessel in the background.

Box 2, Folders 1-4

File Unit 02. Passenger vessels and public vessels, circa 1954-1969

Extent: 4 folders (2 photograph albums and 1 photographic print).

Scope and Content Note

Contains photograph albums and loose photographs of passenger vessels and public vessels that Norgaard worked on as a consultant.

Box 2, Folder 1

Item No. 01. Angels Pilot (pilot boat) photograph, 1964 September 4

Extent: 1 folder (1 photographic print).

Physical Description: Black-and-white duplicate photographic print, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

This is a duplicate photograph of one found in the "Passenger vessels and public vessels photograph album" in Box 2, Folders 3-4.

Box 2, Folder 2

Item No. 02. Eagle (built 1966; motor vessel) photograph album, 1966 August-October

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original brown album embossed in gold with "Eagle."

Scope and Content Note

Interior and exterior shots of the EAGLE (built 1966; motor vessel). Title page of the photograph album says: "M/V 'Eagle' owner Rig Tenders, Inc. All aluminum hull. Built by Colberg Boat Works, Stockton, Calif. Departed from Pacific Dry Dock & Repair Co., Oakland on October 1, 1966."

Box 2, Folders 3-4

Item No. 03. Passenger vessels and public vessels photograph album, circa 1954-1969

Extent: 2 folders.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Color photographic prints, mostly 3.5 x 5 in. Original brown album was unlabeled.

Scope and Content Note

First folder (folder 3) includes photographs of: Propellers of KELMAR of San Diego (4 photographs). Three (3) color photos (3.5 x 5 in.) of interior of unidentified vessel, 2 of these are men steering the vessel. Kelp harvester M/V KELSOL. Color photograph of EL DORADO. Color photos of fire boat (likely the CITY OF LOS ANGELES). Schematics, article and photographs of fire boat L.A. CITY No. 4. ANGELS PILOT, September 4, 1964.

Second folder (folder 4) includes photographs of: ALBACORE (fish and game patrol boat) photos and article from the Independent Journal, January 1959. RED AND WHITE FLEET: San Francisco Chronicle article on the HARBOR QUEEN (passenger vessel), July 25, 1954, and photographs; Article on the HARBOR PRINCESS (built 1959; passenger vessel); Article on the HARBOR EMPEROR (passenger vessel); brochure on red and white fleet Bay Cruises; photographs of the HARBOR TOURIST and HARBOR QUEEN. Other unidentified passenger vessels.

Box 2, Folders 5-9, Box 3, Folder 1

File Unit 03. Tugs and towboats, circa 1960s

Extent: 6 folders (4 photograph albums and 2 folders of loose photographic prints).

Scope and Content Note

Contains photograph albums and loose photographs of tugs and towboats that Norgaard worked on as a consultant. Includes several photographs of L. Christian Norgaard.

Box 2, Folder 5

Item No. 01. Sacramento (tugboat) photograph, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder (1 photographic print).

Physical Description: Photographic print.

Box 2, Folder 6

Item No. 02. Tugs photograph album, volume 1, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original yellow album cover said "Tugs. Designs by L. Chris. Norgaard. Vol. 1". Copyright on back of album said 1978, so likely assembled on or after this date.

Scope and Content Note

Includes LIHUE III (exterior and interior, and group of people in front of hull including Norgaard and family). Color photos of LIHUE III tugging HAWAIIAN. Photographs of MOI and UMPQUA. Article on STANDARD OIL No. 4 (tug) and photographs. AMERICAN RIVER (photo printed in newspaper article). Photographs of FEATHER RIVER. Little girl standing in front of a propeller. Photographs of plans (that have been scaled down) of Twin Screw Tunnel Stern Towboat for Harbor Tug & Barge Co. Photographs of STANFORD B. DOLE, SEA ROVER, SEA SCOUT, MERIDIAN, and COLORADO. Photocopy of photograph of EDWARD J. ENGEL.

Box 2, Folder 6

Item No. 02.02. Norgaard and group posed in front of the hull of an unidentified tug, circa 1960s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

A group of seven people, Norgaard second from the left, standing in front of the exposed hull of one of the tugs that he designed. The tug is most likely the LIHUE III. This photograph is from the album, "Tugs -- Designs by L. Chris Norgaard -- Vol. 1." The group includes a young man, two women with flowers and corsages, and four grown men.

Box 2, Folder 6

Item No. 02.26. Unidentified girl standing in front of the propeller of an unidentified tug, circa 1960s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

A young blonde girl in shorts and long sleeves stands in front of the propeller of an unitentified tug as it sits in dry dock. This photograph is from the album, "Tugs -- Designs by L. Chris Norgaard -- Vol. 1."

Box 2, Folder 6

Item No. 02.27. Engine of the tug Feather River (built 1956; tugboat) being lowered into place, circa 1960s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

View of the vessel from the stern looking fore. It appears as though the engine, which looks new, is going into the vessel. It is suspended by chains and there are three men working to guide the engine down.

Box 2, Folder 7

Item No. 03. Tugs, volume 1 - loose photographs, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original yellow album cover said "Tugs. Designs by L. Chris. Norgaard. Vol. 1". Copyright on back of album said 1978, so likely assembled on or after this date.

Scope and Content Note

Includes exterior shots of the LIHUE III christening and group of people in front of hull including Norgaard and family; Norgaard's wife (?) breaking a bottle on the hull; view of the LIHUE III in front of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Propellers of the MIKIONA. Photographs of UMPQUA, STANDARD OIL NO. 4, FEATHER RIVER, STANFORD B. DOLE, SEA ROVER, and MERIDIAN. (Some of these photographs are duplicates of those found in the Tugs, Volume 1 photograph album in Box 2, Folder 6. Some of them are different shots of the same event that weren't put into the photograph album. Some are photographs of the same vessel at a different time than those in the photograph album).

Box 2, Folder 7

Item No. 03.03. Norgaard with an unidentified woman and young man in front of LIHUE III (tug), 1960 July 30

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 8 x 10 in. "K, Covello Photos; 1535 Stanford Avenue; HO 5-5280 Stockton, Calif.," stamped on the back.

Scope and Content Note

These are the same people from Series 1, File Unit 03, Item 02.02. Norgaard is on the left. The woman is holding flowers and a bottle of what looks to be champagne wrapped in streamers for the christening of the vessel.

Box 2, Folder 7

Item No. 03.23. Tugboat engine at the Pacific Dry Dock and Repair Company, circa 1960s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print, 7.5 x 9.5 in. "General Metals Corporation Enterprise Division; Photo Dept.; Photo No. 466-15; Photo by," stamped and written on the back of the print.

Scope and Content Note

Engine is suspended by cables, most likely in preparation for being placed in a tugboat. There are two men, one in the foreground and one in the background, guiding the engine. The Pacific Dry Dock sign is visible in the background.

Box 2, Folder 8

Item No. 04. Tugs photograph album, volume 2, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original yellow album cover said "Tugs. Designs by L. Chris. Norgaard. Vol. 2" Copyright on back of album said 1978, so likely assembled on or after this date.

Scope and Content Note

Exterior shots of vessels. Photographs of SANFORD B. DOLE; JOE SEVIER (including some interior and exterior shots of the vessel in the Port of Los Angeles); CAYUCOS; LASSEN (interior and exterior); MIKIONA (interior and exterior). Men aboard unidentified vessel (includes photo of L.C. Norgaard).

Box 2, Folder 9

Item No. 05. Tugs, volume 2 - loose photographs, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: loose photographic prints

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of JOE SEVIER; unidentified vessel, July 1964; LASSEN; MIKIONA. (Some of these photographs are duplicates of those found in the Tugs, Volume 2 photograph album in Box 2, Folder 8. Some of them are different shots of the same event that weren't put into the photograph album. Some are photographs of the same vessel at a different time than those in the photograph album).

Box 3, Folder 1

Item No. 06. Tugs and salvage vessels photograph album, circa 1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (disbound) with black-and-white photographic prints, mostly 8 x 10 in. Original yellow album cover did not say anything. Copyright on back of album said 1978, so likely assembled on or after this date.

Scope and Content Note

Includes SACRAMENTO, SAMPSON, REDWOOD CITY, YB-26 HONOLULU, UMPQUA, BH-1, HTB-25, YB-26. Article about Crowley self-propelled barge. Article about Crowley Maritime Corporation, San Francisco salvage vessel ARCTIC SALVOR (refitted for salvage work by Marine Industries Northwest, Inc. of Tacoma). Some photographs with San Francisco in background (including view of Coit Tower). Some photographs of internal machinery.

Box 3, Folders 2-3

File Unit 04. Other consulting projects, circa 1960s-1970

Extent: 2 folders.

Physical Description: Loose photographic prints

Scope and Content Note

Contains loose photographs of other projects that Norgaard worked on as a consultant.

Box 3, Folder 2

Item No. 01. Uncategorized loose photographs, circa 1960s-1970

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic prints of various sizes, 3.5 x 5 in - 8 x 10 in.; 1 black-and-white transparency, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs of SEA ERN, REDONDO, GOLDEN HINDE II, KOKEA.

Box 3, Folder 2

Item No. 01.02. Stem view of the Golden Hinde (built 1973; galleon, replica) underway, circa 1970s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print mounted on paper, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

The vessel is underway with full sail. Norgaard designed and oversaw the construction of this replica of the original GOLDEN HINDE, from 1971-1973.

Box 3, Folder 2

Item No. 01.03. Stern view of the Golden Hinde (built 1973; galleon, replica) underway, circa 1970s

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic print mounted on paper, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

The vessel is underway with full sail. Norgaard designed and oversaw the construction of this replica of the original GOLDEN HINDE, from 1971-1973.

Box 3, Folder 3

Item No. 02. Unidentified loose photographs, circa 1960s-1970

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic prints of various sizes, 3.5 x 5 in - 8 x 10 in. Color photographic prints, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs of men working on unidentified vessels (circa 1960s), interior shots of machinery, a group photograph aboard an unidentified ship (circa 1960s), exterior shots of vessels (circa 1960s-1970), skeg fitting and hogging stringer, a large building (circa 1960s-1970s?), testing of a wooden model (there is the possibility that this is the Chevron Tanker model test (circa 1970s?), color photographs of men working on barge and on land (were in an envelope addressed to the Western Division of Naval Facilities, Engineering Command in Puget Sound, no date).

Box 3, Folders 4-5; Box 4; Box 5, Folders 1-3

Series 02. Del Monte Corporation and Alaska Packers Association, circa 1967-1995 (bulk 1970-1978)

Extent: 10 folders

Scope and Content Note

Contains photographs of Del Monte Corporation and Alaska Packers Association vessels.

Biography/Organization History

From 1970 until 1978, Norgaard was Director of Marine Engineering for Del Monte Corporation in San Francisco where he was responsible for design, supervision of construction and setting the standards for maintenance and repair of approximately 300 refrigerated cargo ships and fishing vessels. During this period Nogaard also served as Marine Consultant to the Alaska Packers Association in Bellevue, Washington.

Arrangement

Arranged in chronological order.

Box 3, Folders 4-5, Box 4, Folders 1-5, Box 5, Folders 1-2

File Unit 01. Photograph albums, circa 1967-1995 (bulk 1970-1978)

Extent: 9 folders (4 photograph albums, 5 folders of photograph album pages).

Scope and Content Note

Contains photographs of Del Monte Corporation and Alaska Packers Association vessels. Predominantly exterior shots of the vessels but also includes interior shots and photographs of people working on the vessels. Some of the albums contain newspaper clippings and magazine articles about Del Monte Corporation vessels.

Box 3, Folder 4

Item No. 01. Alaska Packers Association Offices, San Francisco California, 1905-1923, circa 1940s-1960s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album with black-and-white photographs, 8 x 10 in.

Scope and Content Note

Photographs taken from 1905-1923. It is unknown when the album was created, but likely in the 1940s-1960s.

Box 3, Folder 5 and Box 4, Folder 1

Item No. 02. Del Monte Fleet Alaska Packers Association Vessels, circa 1967-1976

Extent: 2 folders.

Physical Description: Binder (pages removed from binder; original binder discarded) with black-and-white and color photographic prints pasted to black and yellow pages. Photographs mostly 3.5 x 5 in. Original blue binder had label that said "Del Monte Fleet APA Vessels"

Scope and Content Note

Has two tabbed sections: APA Vessels and Miscellaneous. The APA Vessels section includes the following vessels in alphabetic order (does not represent order in album): ANITA; BALENA (black-and-white photographs; color photos June 1971, March 1976); BELUGA (black-and-white photographs; color photographs June 1971); BLACKFISH (color photographs in December 1976); CACHALOT (color photographs); CARRIBEAN (color photographs); DOLPHIN in Blaine (color photograph June 1971); EAGLE (color photographs in December 1976); ELK (black-and-white photographs); ETHEL S. (Kodiak crabber - black-and-white photographs November 1967; color photographs May 1970); FINBACK (Color photos March 1976); GASHIK at Kvichak (color photographs in December 1976); GENEVA (black-and-white photographs); GRAMPUS (color photographs in May 1970 and March 1976); HARRY JR. (black-and-white photographs); HERON (black-and-white photographs pre-conversion; color photographs, some in March 1976); HONKER (color photograph); KODIAK (black-and-white photographs November 1967); LOIS ANDERSON (black-and-white photographs, 1971; Color photographs including some at Naknek); MALLARD (black-and-white photographs; color photographs June 1971); MANATEE (color photograph); MISFIT (black-and-white photographs); NARWHALE BLAINE (black-and-white photographs; color photographs, some in June 1973); NEW VENTURE (color photographs December 1976); PARAKEET (black-and-white photographs November 1967; color photographs May 1969, color photograph undated); PELICAN (black-and-white photographs November 1967); PLOVER (black-and-white photographs; color photograph June 1971); PTARMIGAN at Rowe Machine Works (color photographs May 1970, June 1971); SEABIRD (color photograph); SEA LION (color December 1976); SEA QUAIL (black-and-white photographs November 1967); SPRIG BLAINE (black-and-white photographs; color photographs, some in March 1976); STAR OF KODIAK (color photographs 1969); SUNWARD BLAINE (color photographs, some in March 1976); TOTEM (color photographs); VIRGINIA (black-and-white photographs); WALRUS at Kvichak (color photographs in December 1976); WESTERN ACE (color photographs); YARSH (black-and-white photographs November 1967, including photos on board of man next to crab pot; color photographs in Kodiak May 1970); Float on Goose at Larsen Bay; sailing GILLNETTER APA I, converted sailing GILLNETTERS. Vessels in Blaine (dories and skiffs, seine skiffs, heron's lifeboats). Larsen Bay Fleet and barge and scow ways, pile driver, Seine Skiffs, steel scows, tank barges, pre-season May 1970 (color photographs) ALBATROSS, APA 1, APA 3, APA 5, APA 6, APA 8, APA 9, APA 10, ARCTIC TERN, AUK, BEAVER, BLUEJAY, E.J. BRUCE, JUDY K., KINGFISHER, LOLA C., PADILLA, PIPER, SEABIRD, SNOWBIRD, SUE ANN, THRUSH, UGAT, WEST POINT. Gillnetters, scows, and fuel barges at Naknek (color photographs June 1973). Buildings and landscape in Kuichak. There are some people on the vessels throughout this section but the only person identified in the album is Herb Cooley.

The miscellaneous section includes photographs of: BANANA PLANTER (one black-and-white photograph from 1971); BANANA REEFER (ex GEESTLAND) in Birkenhead, England, June 1971 (color photographs).

Box 4, Folder 2

Item No. 03. Del Monte vessels: Arctic Maid, Delores M, Enterprise, San Antionio IV, Voyager, Western Ace, Hornet, Lexington, Katherine Lisa, circa 1969-1973

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Yellow pages "from Del Monte binders." Pages were already removed from binder when we received the collection. Blue tabbed sections.

Scope and Content Note

Has tabbed sections with categories of ARCTIC MAID, DELORES M, ENTERPRISE, SAN ANTONIO IV, VOYAGER, SAN ANTONIO V, HORNET, LEXINGTON, KATHERINE LISA, KING OSCAR. VOYAGER section includes photographs of WESTERN ACE. HORNET photographs include one of Captain Julio. SAN ANTONIO V and KING OSCAR do not have any photographs in their sections.

Related Material

There are more ENTERPRISE photographs on yellow paper in HDC 1294, project files 12 (box 383).

Box 4, Folder 3

Item No. 04. Del Monte vessels: China Sea, Coral Sea, Sibuco Bay, circa 1970-1974

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Yellow pages from binder (looks like Del Monte binder pages). Green tabbed sections.

Scope and Content Note

Has tabbed sections with categories of CHINA SEA, CORAL SEA, and SIBUCO BAY. CHINA SEA (ex KAIKATA MARU No. 8) Miho, 1972. CORAL SEA (ex TOSUI MARU 15) dry docked in 1970; dry docked in 1972 in Manila; August 1973; in Bataan, January 1974. SIBUCO BAY in Zamboanga, January 1974; photos of reefer barge in December 1972 (US Army BR-1788).

Box 4, Folder 4

Item No. 05. Del Monte vessels: Delores M. and Enterprise, 1972-1973

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Yellow pages from binder (looks like Del Monte binder pages).

Scope and Content Note

DELORES M. drydocked on Mt. Hope Dock, Cristobal, Canal Zone, July 1973; yellow album pages of M/V ENTERPRISE 1973; color photos of ENTERPRISE from December 1972.

Box 4, Folder 5

Item No. 06. Del Monte Fleet/Alaska Packers Association vessels: Auk, Caribbean, Delores M., Falcon, Grebe Chignik, Heron, Hornet, Lexington, San Antonio IV, Western Ace, circa 1970-1978

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album with black pages (disbound from yellow photograph album). Pages contain black-and-white photographs, 8 x 10 in. and color photographs, 3.5 x 5 in. Copyright on back of album said 1979, so likely assembled on or after this date.

Scope and Content Note

Primarily exterior photographs of the vessels.

Box 5, Folder 1

Item No. 07. Alaska Packers Association, San Francisco vessels, circa 1970-1978

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album with black pages (disbound from yellow photograph album). Pages contain color photographs, 3.5 x 5 in. Copyright on back of album said 1979, so likely assembled on or after this date. Alaska Packers Association, San Francisco sticker on inside cover of album.

Scope and Content Note

Includes: photographs of fleet in Alaska, May 1970-June 1973. Shows aerial shots of the cannery, vessels in action, hauling in fish, etc. Vessels pictured include BLACKFISH, PARAKEET, PTARMIGAN, SEA LION, TOTEM. Includes 2 articles in the back of the album: "A Harvest of Shellfish from Alaskan Seas" in the Listening Post, circa 1970s; "Alaska's Alabama-born boats" in the Fish Boat, January 1975.

Box 5, Folder 1

Item No. 07.31. Aerial view of a man working on the deck of an Alaska Packers Association fishing boat, circa 1970-1978

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: color photographic print, 3.5 x 3.5 in.

Scope and Content Note

A man wearing yellow rain gear is standing on the deck of an unidentified fishing boat, with fish all around him. This is presumabley one of the vessels that Norgaard designed for the Alaska Packers Association.

Box 5, Folder 1

Item No. 07.33. Stern view of Gladiator (fishing vessel) Alaska Packers Association fishing boat, circa 1970-1978

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: color photographic print, 3.5 x 3.5 in.

Scope and Content Note

The vessel is docked with snow on mountains in the background. This is presumably one of the vessels that Norgaard designed for the Alaska Packers Association.

Box 5, Folder 1

Item No. 07.37. Deck view of a fish being unloaded from an unidentified fishing vessel, circa 1970-1978

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Extent: 1 photograph.

Physical Description: color photographic print, 3.5 x 3.5 in.

Scope and Content Note

Four men are standing on deck as a crane holds a fish in the air. There is an unidentified vessel along side as well.

Box 5, Folder 2

Item No. 08. W.H. Dimond (barkentine, 3m) model ship, circa 1980-1995

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Photograph album (photographs have been removed from plastic album). 24 color photographic prints, 4 x 6 in. Original plastic album looked like a drugstore album and the first page was a printed photo of San Francisco and said "San Francisco".

Scope and Content Note

Photographs of a W.H. Dimond model ship, which appears to be the model ship that is held by the SF Maritime Museum and was acquired in the 1980s. Perhaps Norgaard had these photographs due to the vessel's connection to Alaska. W.H. DIMOND was a barkentine of 390 tons and was built by Turner at San Francisco for J. D. Spreckels for the Island trade. It was later transferred to the Oceanic Steamship Co. She was sold out of the trade in 1905, and was converted to a schooner by the Alaska Codfish Co. She was wrecked in February 1914, on Bird Island, Alaska. (Information from John Lyman, Pacific Coast Built Sailers, 1850-1905, The Marine Digest. Sept. 13, 1941, p.2).

Box 5, Folder 3

File Unit 02. Loose photographs, undated

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Loose photographs

Scope and Content Note

Contains photographs of the vessels SALMON KING (ship), STAR OF INDIA (bark), STAR OF RUSSIA (bark) and TUGIDAK (tug).

Box 5, Folder 3

Item No. 01. Alaska Packers Association vessels: Salmon King, Star of India, Star of Russia, undated

Extent: 4 photographs.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic prints. Several are reproductions of photographs taken circa 1930s.

Scope and Content Note

TUGIDAK (tug) alongside STAR OF RUSSIA; SALMON KING (2 photographs, originally taken circa 1930s?); STAR OF INDIA (circa 1970s-1980s?)

Box 5, Folders 4-5; Box 6

Series 03. Personal and other photographs, 1955-1985

Extent: 8 folders

Scope and Content Note

Contains photographs of trips to Alaska, a San Francisco Bay cruise, Artists Repertory Theater and its actors, vessels (some unidentified) where it is unclear whether Norgaard's involvement with them was personal or professional, other photographs, and photographic and picture postcards of vessels.

Box 5, Folders 4-6, Box 6, Folders 1-2

File Unit 01. Photograph albums, circa 1972-1975

Extent: 5 folders (3 photograph albums).

Scope and Content Note

Contains photograph albums of trips to Alaska and photographic and picture postcards of various types of vessels (schooners, fishing boats, fire boats, passenger vessels, cruise ships, steamboats, sailboats, kayaks, canoes, etc.).

Box 5, Folder 4

Item No. 01. Alaska photograph album, 1972-1975

Extent: 1 folder (1 binder).

Physical Description: Binder (pages have been removed and binder discarded). Color photographic prints, 3.5 x 5 in. Original presentation binder labeled "Alaska."

Scope and Content Note

First part of album contains photographs from an Alaska cruise aboard the PRINCE GEORGE in September of 1974. Includes images of Vancouver, B.C. (Stanley Park Arboretum, Marine Science Building, Maritime Museum, downtown skyline, Buchart Garden). Photographs aboard the vessel show the Alaska inland passage and passengers on deck. The second part of the album shows a ferry ride across Puget Sound in October 1972 and includes photographs of Winslow, Washington, and Seattle. The third part of the album contains photographs of Alaska in 1973. Includes aerial photographs of Bristol Bay and Chignik, Chignik Cannery. Fourth part of album contains photographs from a trip to Alaska in 1970 and includes the Cook Inlet in Anchorage, Kodiak Harbor, aerial views of Kodiak Island, Alaska Packers Association Cannery in Larsen Bay, fishing boats in Kodiak. Last few pages of album show the remains of APA Diamond M Cannery in Bristol Bay, in August 1975.

Box 5, Folders 5-6, Box 6, Folders 1-2

Item No. 02. Vessel postcard albums, undated

Extent: 4 folders (2 binders).

Physical Description: Mounted photographic prints. Pages have been removed and foldered; binders have been discarded. Copyright on back of album said 1978, so likely assembled on or after this date.

Scope and Content Note

Red album (Box 5, Folders 5-6): Black-and-white and color photographic postcards of various types of vessels (schooners, fishing boats, fire boats, passenger vessels, cruise ships, steamboats, sailboats, kayaks, canoes). Includes several postcards of the GOLDEN HINDE (models, schematics) and the GOLDEN HINDE II in San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Brown photo album (Box 6, Folders 1-2): Color postcards, color photographic postcards of cruise ships, cruise lines, steamboats, passenger vessels, ferry boats, whaleships, barks, steamships, fishing vessels.

Box 6, Folders 3-5

File Unit 02. Loose photographs, 1955-1985

Extent: 3 folders.

Scope and Content Note

Contains photographs of a San Francisco Bay cruise, Artists Repertory Theater and its actors, vessels (some unidentified) where it is unclear whether Norgaard's involvement with them was personal or professional, and other photographs.

Box 6, Folder 3

Item No. 01. San Francisco Bay cruise photographs, circa 1980-1985

Extent: 1 folder (29 photographic prints; 5 slides).

Physical Description: Color photographic prints, 5 x 7 in. and color Ektachrome slides. Envelope of color prints and slides, outside of envelope said: "Meadows and Stryker Attorneys. Mr. Driscol"

Scope and Content Note

Photographs on San Francisco Bay - fishing boat STARDUST, Alcatraz, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Angel Island, Treasure Island, OLD BLUE (passenger vessel), San Francisco sky line including Coit Tower, GOLDEN BEAR (passenger vessel), Golden Gate Bridge, SEA PRINCESS (fishing vessel?), VERNA JEAN (fishing vessel), MISS KELLEY (motor vessel?). 5 color slides printed May 1985: TARA DAWN (tug or fishing vessel), other unidentified vessels - may or may not be San Francisco Bay but they were housed with the prints. It is unknown who "Meadows and Stryker Attorneys. Mr. Driscol" are, but perhaps they were colleagues while Norgaard was at his firm Norgaard & Clark and he took them on a bay cruise.

Box 6, Folder 4

Item No. 02. Artists Repertory Theater photographs, circa 1968-1971

Extent: 1 folder (5 photographic prints).

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographs.

Scope and Content Note

Norgaard's connection to this theater is unclear. One photograph of the Artists Repertory Company building (annotation on back says "Grey's studio, Sept 1968-June 1969 San Anselmo, Calif); three photographs during unknown stage production, undated; one photograph of a man with a moustache and glasses (annotation on back is cut off but says __ Ludwig in "Cabaret" C.O.M. 1971.

Box 6, Folder 5

Item No. 03. Other photographs, 1955-1970s

Extent: 1 folder.

Physical Description: Black-and-white photographic prints of various sizes, black-and-white copy negatives, black-and-white lithographs, color photographic prints, color magazine pages.

Scope and Content Note

Includes a black-and-white photograph of the San Francisco skyline taken from the water (1955); author Joseph H. Busch; color photographs of a dry dock; color photograph of a man in a wooden ship (large model?); polaroid photographs of the dredge TROJAN; polaroid and color photographs of the fishing vessel SUPERFISH; two black and white negatives of the interior of an unidentified vessel; two lithographic reproductions of photographs held in the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society ("Halibut dory under oars circa 1920s" and "steamer VASHON at Three Tree Point"); black-and-white photograph of the NADINA; eleven photograph album pages with black-and-white photographs of vessels and color magazine cut outs of sailboats and yachts; black-and-white photograph of a snake on a branch.

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