Finding Aid to the Moore Dry Dock Photograph Albums
Bancroft Library staff
The Bancroft Library
Nov. 1, 2018
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
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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on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Conditions Governing Access
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.
Arrangement
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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Note
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.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Moore Dry Dock photograph albums, BANC PIC 2014.036, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Processing Information
Collection processed at the album level in 2018.
Content Description
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
Series 1: Albums (volumes 1-38)
1912-1959
Physical Description:
8311 photographs
in 38 albums
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
volume 1 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
1912 - June 1, 1916
Physical Description:
241 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include life boats, engines, mechanical parts, blueprints, Moore & Scott Ship Yard (Oakland), Union S.S. "Waitemata",
ferry boat "Edward T. Jeffery".
Note
Item numbers in range: 2 - 244. Page missing: pg. 173-174.
volume 2 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
May 31, 1916 - August 25, 1917
Physical Description:
244 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include hulls, Moore & Scott Ship Yard (Oakland), Schooner "Snow & Burgess", anchors, "Thordis", S.S. "Capto",
blueprints, "Sagaland", "War Bay".
Note
Item numbers in range: 245 - 488.
volume 3 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
September 11, 1917 - May 8, 1918
Physical Description:
244 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include "Looking Forward", hulls, "Looking Aft", S.S. "Coronado", various views of ships during construction.
Note
Item numbers in range: 489 - 732.
volume 4 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
May 8, 1918 - October 9, 1918
Physical Description:
243 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include hulls, S.S. "Fresno", S.S. "Pasadena", S.S. "Oakland", S.S. "Yaquina", launching party, various views
of ships during construction, sponsors including Miss Mary Theresa King and J. P. Dolan.
Note
Item numbers in range: 733 - 977.
volume 5 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
October 9, 1918 - February 12, 1919
Physical Description:
248 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include hulls, sponsors, S.S. "Chipchung", S.S. "Monasses", S.S. "Quagama", S.S. "Yaquina", hospital, San Francisco
Machine Shop.
Note
Item numbers in range: 978 - 1225.
volume 6 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
February 12, 1919 - June 12, 1919
Physical Description:
252 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include storage warehouse, blacksmith shop, machine shop, hulls, S.S. "Cotati", sponsors, "Looking Forward", S.S.
"Guimba", Victory Loan Drive, "Monasses", "Imlay", panoramic view of Oakland Harbor on August 1918.
Note
Item numbers in range: 1226 - 1477. Binding is loose.
volume 7 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
June 14, 1919 - September 10, 1919
Physical Description:
232 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include Scotch Marine Boilers, engines, sponsors, copper shop, propeller hubs, "Miskianza",marine railways under
construction, hulls, concert band,"Nockum", drydocks, "Quabbin", "Naugus".
Note
Item numbers in range: 1478 - 1700.
volume 8 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
September 10, 1919 - January 31, 1920
Physical Description:
182 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include hulls, marine railways under construction, 15000 - ton floating drydock, Scotch Marine boilers, launching
six steel hulls on one tide, special train, mechanical parts, sponsors, "Murasa", "Narbo". Letter on page 1789 describes
the tidal conditions and approximate times of the six ship launching of 12/20/1919.
Note
Item numbers in range: 1701 - 1882.
volume 9 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
January 1920 - April 1920
Physical Description:
202 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include "Meton", Scotch Marine boilers, marine railways under construction, "Looking Forward", "Narissus", drydock,
"Jalapa", oil tankers, hulls, sponsors, "Murasa", "Mosella", mechanical parts, "Looking Aft".
Note
Item numbers in range: 1883 - 2084
volume 10 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
April 18, 1920 - July 20, 1920
Physical Description:
200 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include sponsors, mechanical parts, hulls, No.2 drydock, oil tanker, S.S. "Orani", Department of Physio-Therapy,
"Salina", "Mursa", "Janelew", panorama of waterfront on Oakland Estuary (2259), band concert.
Note
Item numbers in range: 2085 - 2284. Binding is loose and picture is missing on pg. 2146.
volume 11 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
July 20, 1920 - September 28, 1920
Physical Description:
199 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include post card (2291), "Looking Forward", "Mevania", "Janelew", hulls, towboats, "Mursa", sponsors, "Breaking
Bottle", interior of S.S. "Arakan", luncheon recreation, interior and exterior look at oil tanker "Stockton" (2412 - 2480).
Note
Item numbers in range: 2285 - 2480(d). Picture missing on pg. 2414.
volume 12 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
October 8, 1920 - January 11, 1921
Physical Description:
200 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include S.S. "Arakan", hulls, "Looking Aft", "Looking Forward", sponsors, S.S. "Thos. H. Wheeler" (Thomas H. Wheeler),
interior and exterior look at S.S. "Narcissus (2612 - 2680).
Note
Item numbers in range: 2481 - 2680. Pictures loose from the page.
volume 13 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
January 28, 1921 - October 21, 1921
Physical Description:
357 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include S.S "Gargoyle", sponsors, S.S. "Enterprise", hulls, oil tanker, entertainment for sponsors, Bohemian
Club, "Breaking Bottle", S.S. "Manukai", S.S. "Tamiahua", S.S. "Lubrico", panoramic waterfront view of Moore Shipbuilding
Company.
Note
Item numbers in range: 2737 - 2980. [2977 - 3088 + 1]. Binding is loose and contains loose photographs. No Picture on pg.
2916.
volume 14 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
November 14, 1921 - August 20, 1925
Physical Description:
264 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include S.S "President Harrison", Scoth Marine boilers, S.S "Wilhelmina", mechanical parts, S.S. "President Cleveland",
S.S. "President Pierce", "Hercules", battleship "Vermont", U.S.S.B. Str. "President Taft", officials and friends of the Union
Oil Company, bay barge, sponsors, Alameda High School.
Note
Item numbers in range: [3090 - 3344 + 9]. 3094-3095: photograph missing.
volume 15 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
August 20, 1925 - October 24, 1926
Physical Description:
200 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include construction of a bank, various machines, "Wilhelmina", "Colombo", evaporator pressure seamless tube,
propeller hubs, Oakland Estuary Webster Street Bridge destroyed, laying the first keel plate of the two ferries, sponsors,
steel ferry steamer.
Note
Item numbers in range: [3345-3554].
volume 16 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
November 1, 1926 - January 4, 1930
Physical Description:
202 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include steel ferry steamer, sponsors, steamships, "Peralta", refrigerators, "Yerba Buena", steel car float, Moore
"Battleship", progress in the construction of the Shell Building.
Note
Item numbers in range: [3555 - 3741 + 16].
volume 17 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
January 11, 1930 - July 1, 1933
Physical Description:
218 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include finished construction of the Shell Building, motor ferry vessel "San Diego", sponsors, construction of
residences, machines, inauguration of state board of Harbor Commissioners, "U.S. Grant", U.S.L.H.T. "Columbine", one dollar
check, bascule bridge under construction.
Note
Item numbers in range: [3742 - 3928 + 31]. Three loose photos between 3848 and 3849.
volume 18 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
July 9, 1933 - September 17, 1934
Physical Description:
190 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include Bay Bridge construction caissons, sponsors, caisson "J. A. McEachern", caisson "Charles F. Swigert", progress
pictures of the scrapping of the battleships "Charlotte" and "Missoula".
Note
Item numbers in range: [3929 - 4128].
volume 19 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
September 17, 1934 - January 4, 1934
Physical Description:
199 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include Bohemian Club, Mr. Joseph A. Moore, composition scrap, progress picture of the scrapping of the battleships
"Charlotte" and "Missoula", double leaf bascule bridge, pupils of the high first grade of Frank Havens School, manufacturing
plants and shops.
Note
Item numbers in range: [4129-4325 + 2].
volume 20 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
February 1934 - December 1938
Physical Description:
197 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include bottle manufacturing plant of the Owens-Illinois Pacific Coast Company, new equipment, American Hawaiian
steamer "Golden Horn", new structural steel fabricating shop, sponsors, union oil tanker "Los Angeles".
Note
Item numbers in range: [4326 - 4521 + 1]. Paper with a list on 4151 and 4152.
volume 21 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
January 1939 - August 1939
Physical Description:
189 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include erection of hull for "Walnut", building of slip No.2 for the construction of the C-3 type freighters,
repair of "Carolinian", sponsors, various views of the lighthouse tender "Walnut", U.S. lighthouse tender "Fir".
Note
Item numbers in range: [4522 -4714].
volume 22 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
August 1939 - June 1940
Physical Description:
219 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include interior and exterior of "Fir", sponsors, C-3 type freighter S.S. "Sea Arrow", launching, "Looking Forward",
"Sea Star", executives and visitors of the Moore Dry Dock Company.
Note
Item numbers in range: [4715 - 4913 + 20].
volume 23 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
June 1940 - March 1941
Physical Description:
201 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include Moore Dry Dock Company band, "Sea Arrow", engine room, steamer "Mormacsun", S.S. "William P. Biddle",
Golden Gate turf club, Congressional members of the Sub-committee on Naval Appropriations, 32-acre tract owned by the Western
Pacific Railroad Company.
Note
Item numbers in range: [4914 - 5114].
volume 24 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
March 1941 - September 1941
Physical Description:
190 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include Moore Dry Dock Company's shipyard, sponsors, 32-acre tract owned by the Western Pacific Railroad Company,
"Iowan", slip No.4 reconstruction for the building of vessels for the United States Maritime Commission, riveting school.
Note
Item numbers in range: [5115 - 5314].
volume 25 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
September 1941 - April 1942
Physical Description:
199 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include 32-acre tract owned by the Western Pacific Railroad Company, structural steel frame for building to house
the cyclotron at the University of California at Berkeley, "Hard Times" night.
Note
Item numbers in range: [5315 - 5508 + 5].
volume 26 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
April 1942 - August 1942
Physical Description:
188 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include S.S. "Trade Wind", S.S. "Alcoa Courier", sponsors, employees of the Mold Loft, breaking the bottle, U.S.S.
"Dashing Wave", Mr. James Moor and Captain H. M. Gleason (Manager).
Note
Item numbers in range: [5509 - 5696].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 27 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
August 1942 - November 1942
Physical Description:
193 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include S.S. "Hotspur", S.S. "Alcoa Corsair", National Newspaper Women, sponsors, S.S. "Young America", launching
of hulls.
Note
Item numbers in range: [5697 - 5889].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 28 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
November 1942 - March 1943
Physical Description:
206 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include sponsors, S.S. "Comet", damaged Gantry-Whirley electric traveling crane, S.S. "James Baines", S.S. "Typhoon",
S.S. "Zirianin".
Note
Item numbers in range: [5890 - 6090 + 5].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 29 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
March 1943 - July 1943
Physical Description:
203 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include S.S. "Young America", S.S. "Winged Arrow", sponsors, Mr. Mark O'Dea (Director of Information, United States
Maritime Commission), S.S. "Golden Gate", S.S. "Blue Jacket", S.S. "Sovereign of the Seas", S.S. "Mischief".
Note
Item numbers in range: [6091 - 6293].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 30 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
August 1943 - December 1943
Physical Description:
273 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include sponsors, "breaking the bottle", S.S. "Rainbow", Mrs. James R. Moore (sponsor).
Note
Item numbers in range: [6334 - 6606].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
file NEG (8x10)
"Flyaway" launch negatives
Nov. 2, 1943.
Scope and Content
8x10 negatives (copy negatives?) of four images that include Haas family members (sponsor Rhoda Haas) at the launching of
the "Flyaway" on Nov. 2, 1943. Corresponding prints are found in volume 30.
volume 31 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
January 1944 - June 1944
Physical Description:
253 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include mostly photos of sponsors, S.S. "Flying Yankee", S.S. "Argonaut", heavy forge shop.
Note
Item numbers in range: [6619 - 6871].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 32 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
June 1944 - October 1944
Physical Description:
252 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include mostly photos of sponsors, S.S. "Nonpareil", young ladies of the Coast Guard women's reserve.
Note
Item numbers in range: [6874 - 7125]. Photos 6973 and 7125 are loose.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 33 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
October 1944 - April 1945
Physical Description:
198 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include mostly photos of sponsors, young lady spars and marines, Captain T. Wheeler, Timothy A. Folger.
Note
Item numbers in range: [7138 - 7335].
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945--California
volume 34 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
April 1945 - June 1947
Physical Description:
201 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include sponsors, S.S. "Monarch of the Seas", B&W boiler, S.S. "M.C. General Meigs", seven support cement kilns,
structural steel frame for addition to Hesse Hall, British steamer "Stanmore".
Note
Item numbers in range: [7336 - 7536].
volume 35 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
June 1947 - October 1948
Physical Description:
200 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include interior of S.S. Pacific Transport, interior of M/S Hoegh Trader, S.S. "Sparrows Point", Moorspeed Mill,
British bessel M/S "Silveroak", factory buildings, warehouse buildings, S.S. America Transport.
Note
Item numbers in range: [7537 - 7736].
volume 36 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
October 1948 - August 1951
Physical Description:
201 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include structural steel frame furnished and fabricated by the Moore Dry Dock Company, Napa River Bridge, Manuel
Quezon Bridge, various mechanical parts for construction and repair, sponsors, Japanese steamer "Kenkokumaru". There is a
sheet between photo 7828 and 7829 describing the mechanical details of photos 7824 - 7828.
Note
Item numbers in range: [7737 - 7937].
volume 37 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
August 1951 - August 1953
Physical Description:
201 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include structural steel frame of University of California Teaching Hospital, cocoa press installation, Mr. Joseph
Moore and his wife Ann Castle Moore, Mesta, airplane carrier "Cape Esperance", machinists, repairs.
Note
Item numbers in range: [7938 - 8138].
volume 38 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
June 1953 - July 1959
Physical Description:
230 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Photographs include Vichy Bridge across the Russian River, S.S. Bunker Hill, deteriorated mechanical parts, anchors, Seventh
Street Pier, sponsors, USNS "Mission San Rafael", Mr. S. A. Knapp's retirement dinner.
Note
Item numbers in range: [8139 - 8364 + 4]. Note present that four photos between 8193 and 8195 had their negatives sent to
the Navy.
Series 2: Albums (2 v. of incomplete series)
1937-1940
Physical Description:
405 photographs
in 2 albums
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Shipbuilding, shipyard, and dry dock photographs that duplicate many of the photographs found in Series 1 volumes 20-22. These
albums, called "Series 2" by the library, are volumes 17 and 19 of a different but incomplete run of volume numbers, and they
are the only volumes in this number run that were held by the Moore family at the time of gift (2014, with notes indicating
this was true in 1991.) Like the full run of volumes in Series 1, the albums are part of a chronological run, with volume
number, dates, and photographic number range printed on the album spine. The purpose and use of this second series of duplicate
photoraphs is unknown, as is the reason that the volume numbering scheme is not parallel to that of Series 1 (e.g., v. 17
has content found in v.20-21 of Series 1.)
volume ser. 2 v.17 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
September 1937 - March 1939
Physical Description:
203 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Duplicates of v. 20-21 images. Photographs include British M.S. "Silverguava", "S.C.T. Dodd", "M.S. Samoan", "M.V. Komoku",
U.S.A.T. "St. Mihiel", construction of warehouses, sponsors, "S.S. President Taft", "President Hayes", active chapter of Lambda
of Chi Phi fraternity, Admiral Emory S. Land, the lighthouse tenders "Walnut" and "Fir".
Note
Item numbers in range: [4386 - 4580 + 8]. All photographs present are duplicates of part of Vol. 20 and Vol. 21. Two pieces
of paper in the front of the album point out the duplicate photographs and duplicate volume numbers that do not match the
main volume numbering series.
volume ser. 2 v.19 (fALB)
Moore dry dock and shipyard album
November 1939 - July 1940
Physical Description:
202 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Duplicates of v.22-23 images. Photographs include double-leaf bascule type High Street Bridge (Oakland - Alameda), sponsors,
S.S. "Sea Star", executives of bonding companies, interior and exterior view of S.S. "Sea Arrow".
Note
Item numbers in range: [4771 - 4971]. All photographs present are duplicates of part of Vol. 22 and Vol. 23. Two pieces of
paper in the front of the album point out the duplicate photographs and duplicate volume numbers that do not match the main
volume numbering series.
Series 3: Miscellaneous
1933-1969, bulk 1933
volume ser. 3 v. 1 (ALB)
When the Bay is Bridged: [Bay Bridge album]
June 1933 - November 1933
Physical Description:
82 photographs
in 1 album
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
"When the Bay is Bridged." Photographic documentation of Moore Dry Dock's role in the start-up of construction of the San
Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Includes dry dock and other facilities and launchings of caissons to be used during construction.
The photographic title page is a photo montage incorporating an artist's rendering of the future bridge. Includes duplicates
of some photos in album 17 and 18.
Note
Item numbers in range: [3917 - 4034]. A second (duplicate) copy of this album has been disbound and kept in the same box with
the volume.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
folder ser. 3:1 (PIC)
Rolph building contact sheets
1969
Physical Description:
2 photographs
: gelatin silver prints
; prints approximately 20 x 25 cm (8 x 10 format)
Scope and Content
Two contact sheets (2 1/4 inch format) of exterior views of the Rolph Navigation and Coal Company building in 1969.
folder ser. 3:2 (PIC)
Miscellaneous clippings and ephemera
bulk 1960-1962
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Content
Newspaper clippings and ephemera (some circa 1960) on the Moore Dry Dock Company, including a magazine-format publication
advertising the Oct. 1962 auction of industrial equipment of the Moore Dry Dock facility in Oakland.