Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- Receipts for pay of deck hands and other workers on the Sacramento river schooner "Mabel and Edith."
- Extent:
- .17 Linear Feet 1 half-box
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Schooner "Mabel and Edith" Collection, MS 75, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Receipts for pay of deck hands and other workers on the Sacramento river schooner "Mabel and Edith." This vessel shipped freight for the Southern Pacific and other railroads. Receipts signed by the shipmaster George Franklin Whitcomb, San Francisco. Receipts include date, employee name, rate of pay, and length of service.
- Biographical / historical:
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Until completion of a railroad connection between the Central Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1860s, small vessels carried considerable freight and passenger traffic along the Sacramento River. The "Mabel and Edith" was one such watercraft. Built in 1867 by Patrick Tiernan, the "Mabel and Edith" was 64 x 23 feet, with a gross tonnage of 48.59. (Roger Olmsted, SCOW SCHOONERS OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY, 1988).
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Southern Pacific Railroad
- Arrangement:
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Single item
- Physical location:
- Statewide Museum Collection Center
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Financial accounting
Payrolls--Accounting - Names:
- Southern Pacific Company
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research by appointment. Contact Library Staff.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to the California State Railroad Museum. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the CSRM Library & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the CSRM as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Schooner "Mabel and Edith" Collection, MS 75, California State Railroad Museum Library & Archives, Sacramento, California.
- Location of this collection:
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111 I StreetSacramento, CA 95814, US
- Contact:
- (916) 323-8073