Queen (built 1882; passenger vessel) photograph, circa 1897

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Summary

Title:

Queen (built 1882; passenger vessel) photograph,

Dates:

circa 1897

Creators:

San Francisco Maritime Museum

Abstract:

One 8 x 10 in. black-and-white photographic print captioned "'The Klondike Fever' Loading for Alaska."

Extent:

1 item.

Language:

In English.

Preferred citation:

Preferred Citation

[Item title or description including date]. Queen (built 1882; passenger vessel) photograph, P05-011. [Location within collection organization identified by container number, series number, file unit number, or item number]. Historic Documents Department, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.

Background

Scope and content:

One 8 x 10 in. black-and-white photographic print captioned "'The Klondike Fever' Loading for Alaska."

The view is of the passenger vessel QUEEN in port.

Biographical / historical:

Historical Note
The passenger vessel QUEEN was built at Philadelphia in 1882 as QUEEN OF THE PACIFIC and later renamed QUEEN. She was owned by the Pacific Coast Steamship Co., and saw duty to Alaska in the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. In 1935, QUEEN left Seattle as QUEEN MARU, with a Japanese crew, bound for a Japanese scrapyard. Source: The H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest, ed. Gordon Newell.

Acquisition information:

Accession number SAFR-00001.

Custodial history:

The photographs were acquired by the San Francisco Maritime Museum from an unidentified source prior to Golden Gate National Recreation Area acquisition of the collection and they were transferred to San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park under the blanket accession SAFR-00001.

Processing information:

Processing and Cataloging

Processed by Charles Miller and completed 3/15/2005.

ANCS+ Catalog No. SAFR 20649.
The collection is cataloged in the National Park Service (NPS) Automated National Catalog System (ANCS+). A portion of the ANCS+ catalog record can be viewed on the NPS Museum Collections on the Web Catalog by searching on the catalog number 20649 at http://www.museum.nps.gov/safr/page.htm. Do not include the acronym "SAFR" in the search.

Arrangement:

No arrangement.

Physical location:

Historic Documents Department

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard.

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Klondike gold fields
Photography of ships
Photographic prints
Names:: Pacific Coast Steamship Company
Queen (passenger vessel)

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:: This description was produced by the Historic Documents Department of San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
Date Prepared:: 2007
Date Encoded:: Machine-readable finding aid generated by automated script. Data derived from the ANCS+/Rediscovery archives module database and other sources. Date of source: 3/15/2005.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Access

This collection is open for research.

Condition Restrictions
There are no restrictions based on the condition of this material. However, you should be aware that access to collection material is always at the discretion of NPS curatorial staff if the condition warrants restricting the access and handling of the collection items at any time.

Terms of access:

Use

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