Accidents - Miscellaneous
By Date (1940/1951) . BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 1-6, [000001-000210] . 4100 negatives (estimate)
Mainly local accidents including burnings, falls, poisonings, injuries, explosions, suicides, streetcar, elevator, and baby accidents. Many scenes taken in local hospital emergency rooms. In addition, included are shipping, aviation, railroad, landslides, and industrial accidents: crash of pilot boat "Gracie" with Japanese ship, Walter Luckenback (ship) with damaged bow, lumber schooner Stanwood at Hunters Point [00016, 14 negatives], 4 block landslide in Oakland [00019, 10 negatives], wreckage of Army training plane near Irvington, Western Pacific railroad accident in Niles Canyon 00029, ca. 30 negatives], landslide in Fairfax, San Francisco Forester Street landslide [00033, ca. 20 negatives], Navy plane crash in Livermore, Half Moon Bay Navy plane crash, Navy boat aground off Seal Rocks, Navy blimp crash in Daly City [00037, ca. 15 negatives], explosion at Bethelem Steel, shipwreck Henry Bergh (ship) [00057-00061 ca. 50 negatives], 2 ships explosion at Port Chicago [00065, ca. 30 negatives], railroad accident at Colfax [00070, ca. 15 negatives], explosion at Tele-News Theater [00072, 6 negatives], survivors of railroad accident in Ogden (Utah) in Oakland [74, 10 negatives], US Navy plane crash in the San Francisco Bay off Alameda, [00075, ca. 20 negatives], Miraloma explosion cases [00094, 13 negatives], plane wreck of B-29 at Livermore Hills, B-17 airplane crash at Fairfax [00105, 13 negatives], yacht Seventh Heaven [00115, 8 negatives], Antietam (ship) explosion at Hunters Point [00117, ca. 20 negatives], explosion of Hercules Powder Plant at Pinole, ship collision off Golden Gate [00164, ca. 15 negatives], Air Force F-80 Shooting Star plane crash near Hamilton Field, B-29 plane crash at McDonald Island in San Joaquin River, DC3 plane crash near Benicia, California Bear (ship) collision with Chinese vessel, and hospital ship Benevolence and freighter Mary Luckenbach shipwrecks [00189, ca. 100 negatives].
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BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 2, Box 2, [00065.01-06] . Port Chicago Explosion -- Munitions Ships . July 17, 1944 - July 22, 1944