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Finding Aid to the Moore Dry Dock Photograph Albums
BANC PIC 2014.036
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Moore Dry Dock photograph albums
Creator:
Moore Dry Dock Company
Creator:
Gabriel Moulin Studios
Identifier/Call Number: BANC PIC 2014.036
Physical Description:
8883 photographs
in 41 albums and 2 folders
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Date (bulk): 1912-1969, bulk 1915-1959
Abstract:
Ship repair, shipbuilding, and other structural steel building activities at Moore Dry Dock and Moore Shipbuilding in Oakland,
California.
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Collection is open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Moore Dry Dock photograph albums were a gift of the JAM Liquidating Trust, 2013.
Arranged by the library in three series, chiefly to reduce confusion caused by duplicate volume numbers (now listed as Series
2). Albums contain photographs covering specified chronological periods. Nearly all photographs bear unique item numbers apparently
assigned by the photographer. Some numbers are skipped, and it is therefore assumed the numbers functioned as the photographer's
negative file numbers and that not all negatives were selected for printing. Volume numbers are original and are printed on
album spines.
The Moore & Scott Iron Works of San Francisco (a partnership of brothers Robert S. Moore and Joseph A. Moore, with John Thomas
Scott) acquired dry docks in Oakland in 1909. In 1917 the company became the Moore Shipbuilding Company and was renamed in
1922 as the Moore Dry Dock Company.The dry docks closed in 1961.
Volume descriptions in this finding aid are not complete. Only highlights were noted, such as ships under construction or
repair that had a significant number of images present. All photographs have dates and caption information along their lower
edge, providing significant detail that has not been transcribed in this guide.
[Identification of item], Moore Dry Dock photograph albums, BANC PIC 2014.036, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Collection processed at the album level in 2018.
Ship repair, shipbuilding, and other structural steel building activities at Moore Dry Dock and Moore Shipbuilding in Oakland,
with some views elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes construction progress photographs, ships under repair, workers,
launchings, launching sponsors and visiting dignitaries, construction of parts of steel bridges (caissons and steel frames,
for example), and other industrial construction. Photographs are arranged chronologically and date from 1912 through the First
World War, through the Great Depression and the Second World War and through the 1950s. One album (ser.3 v.1) bears the title
"When the bay is bridged" within the first photograph: a composite photograph of an artist's rendering of the Bay Bridge.
This album documents Moore Dry Dock Company's role in early construction phases, with 82 photographs dating from June to November,
1933.
Photographs throughout are chiefly by Gabriel Moulin and Moulin Studios of San Francisco.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Shipbuilding -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Shipyards
Steel industry and trade -- California -- Oakland -- Photographs
Dry docks
Bridges--Design and construction--California.
Iron and steel bridges
Gabriel Moulin Studios
Moore Dry Dock Company
Moore Dry Dock Company -- Photographs
Moore Shipbuilding Company
Moore & Scott Iron Works