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Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company. Photographs relating to the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company and Union Iron Works [graphic].
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Title:
Photographs relating to the Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company and Union Iron WorksCreator/Contributor:
Pacific Coast Shipbuilding Company, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Detroit Publishing CoAbstract:
Chiefly photographs of ships and shipyards as well as machinery and facilities from the late 1880s to about 1920. Some views
are related to the Union Iron Works (machinery manufactured, and two crowd scenes at the 1904 sale of the company to Charles
Schwab). Ships, launchings, and progress photographs in shipyards document Pacific Coast Shipbuilding and the shipyard of
Moore & Scott Iron Works in Oakland, Calif. and a few images related to the later Moore Shipbuilding Co. One panorama of
the storage yard and company buildings (probably from WWI era), some other broad views also included.
Date:
1886 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPacific Coast Shipbuilding Company -- Pictorial works
Union Iron Works Co. -- Pictorial works
Moore & Scott Iron Works -- Pictorial works
Iron-works -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Photographs
Ships -- California -- Photographs
Shipbuilding -- California -- Photographs
Shipyards -- California -- Photographs
Shipbuilding
Ships
Shipyards
California
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Various photographers, chiefly unknown.
Includes 9 mounted photochrom (color photolithograph) prints by the Detroit Publishing Company of US Navy ships.
Album titled "Pacific Coast Shipbulding Company Photographic Record of Progress", 1918.
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Type:
graphicPhotographs.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
3 boxes photographic prints, 1 album and 1 panorama (composed of 5 photographic prints),: chiefly black and white. ; various
sizes.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.