History Room Data
Additional Note
Airwayte International, Inc.
Brief history 1954-1963
Albert Air Conveyor Corporation
Brief history 1956-1961
Alexandria, Egypt
Photographs of Dollar Steamship Line Office 1933
American Mail Line and Admiral Oriental Line
History; photographs of SS. President Grant and SS. President Jefferson; cabin plans; blueprints and plans; instructions to masters and officers; operating-differential subsidy agreement, 1937; passenger and freight sailing schedules, 1924-1937; and promotional pamphlets.-- See also cartons 42 -53 and 73.
Anniversaries
Press releases re the Robert Dollar Company's 50th anniversary, 1953, and R. Stanley Dollar's 75th birthday, 1955; list of employees receiving watches for 25 years of service and clocks for 40 and 50 years of service; photographs of Marie Maloney's 50th anniversary luncheon, 1965.
Richard H. Andersen, 1901-
Biography and photographs
Aeronautics
Material re Dollar's early interest in aviation (1929), particularly proposed dirigible air service from the Pacific coast to the Philippine Islands and China.
South Pacific Air Lines
History, 1952-1966; photographs of flying boats; travel folders, flight schedules and newspaper clippings.
Travel folders, schedules, chart of certificated route and charter area, SPAL exhibits in trans-Pacific route case - CAB docket no. 7723 et al. -- See also volumes 48 and 49 for additional information.
Lockheed Lodestar No. 4433
photographs
The 1880 Corporation
Photographs of airplanes
Biographies for executives of Robert Dollar Company as follows:
R. Stanley Dollar, Sr. (1880-1958)
R. Stanley Dollar, Jr. (1915-), including war record
Mrs. R. Stanley Dollar, Jr.
J. Harold Dollar, Jr., (1919-)
Richard H. Andersen (1901-)
Hugo N. Lorber (1876-)
Robert P. Seeley (1912-)
J. D. Hopkins (1894-)
Charles W. Corbaley (1880-)
James E. Moriarty (1915-)
William B. Jenkyns (1909-)
Howard M. Cavender, Jr. (1924-)
Oliver W. Meek (1917-)
Phyllis (Hills) Meek (1919-)
E. H. Hall (1892-)
Charles John Patterson (1900-)
Walter F. Vonderheid (1915-)
William Stoy Elliott (1897-)
Daniel E. Gould (1903-)
Gregory Alexander Harrison, Jr. (1927)
Biographies for executives of Globe Wireless, Ltd., as follows:
Bruce Albertson (1903-)
Anthony G. Bamby (1912-)
General Walter P. Boatwright (1886-)
Herbert Charles Hendry, Jr. (1923-)
James B. McPherson (1906-)
William H. Phillips (1905-)
George J. Scott (1897-)
Robert Dollar Building -- See also vol. 36
San Francisco (311 California Street)
Photographs and data re additions and alterations 1919-1948
R. Stanley Dollar Building, San Francisco
Photographs and data re additions and alterations 1917-1947
Building at 214 California Street, San Francisco
Photographs of remodeling and completion 1955-1956
Building at 1960 Hayes Street, San Francisco
Acquired by the Dollar Company at public auction, 1948 and sold 1956
Building at 130 Bush Street, San Francisco
Blueprint and photograph -- See also Carton 59
Dollar Buildings
General - publicity 1947-1952
Dollar Buildings
Miscellaneous unidentified
Capilano Steamship Company Limited
Brief history 1933-1938
Chungking, China
Photographs and description of Robert Dollar Company property and equipment
Captain Robert Dollar
Diaries -- See also Vol. 1-6. 1872-1932
3 Private Land Account Books: 1856-57-58; 1873; 1874-75
Biography, in Captain Dollar's hand
Excerpts from biography
Records of Forefathers
Letters and photographs of brothers, sisters, etc.
Photographs 1868-1931.
Additional Note
Honors, decorations, etc.
Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other printed items concerning career; views on foreign trade, merchant marine, etc; gifts to various institutions; 50th wedding anniversary; and obituaries. See also v. 57 for obituaries
Photographs of funeral
Data concerning memorial window, First Presbyterian Church, San Rafael
Obituaries, letters of sympathy and acknowledgements, on the death of Mrs. Robert Dollar 1941
Copies of speeches 1908-1919
Typescript carbons of letters and diary entries written mainly while travelling, some of which were later published as memoirs
Drafts of Memoirs, etc.
Reports on trips to the Far East 1902, 1908, and 1910
Correspondence and photographs concerning the Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award, given annually at National Foreign Trade Convention, 1938-1966, and its recipients. 1938-1966
Correspondence and photographs concerning the Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award, given annually at National Foreign Trade Convention, 1938-1966, and its recipients -- See also volumes 50 and 51. 1938-1966
Correspondence, pamphlets, book lists, and photographs relating to the Captain Robert Dollar World Trade Library, San Francisco. 1957-1958 -- See also volume 52. 1957-1958
Books written by Dollar:
Private Diary of Captain Robert Dollar On His Visit To China. 1910 and 1912 (revised edition) 1910 and 1912
Memoirs. 4 volumes in 3. 1917-1928
130 Years of Steam Navigation. 1931
Letters of acknowledgment from recipients of Memoirs -- See also Cartons 19 and 78 and volumes 7-21, 34, 56-59, and 70. 1925
Mrs. Robert Stanley Dollar [Sr.]
Data re gift to Pioneer Methodist Church, Coquille, Oregon in memory of her parents 1936
Robert Stanley Dollar [Sr.] (1880-1958)
Biographies from Who's Who, etc.
Press release and scroll honoring 75th and 77th birthdays
List of interviews and calls made on business trips 1931-1934
Speeches to employees and other groups
Invitations, certificates of appointment, etc.
Magazine and newspaper articles
Photographs and correspondence concerning trip to the orient Jan. 1958
Business data concerning trip to the orient Jan. 1958
Photographs and newspaper clippings concerning activities honoring the visit of Carlos P. Garcia President of the Republic of the Philippines June, 1958
Obituaries and data re memorial window, First Presbyterian Church, San Rafael
Photographs ca. 1904-1958.
Additional Note
Robert Stanley Dollar [Jr.] (1915-)
Biography and war record
Biography of Mrs. Dollar
List of directorships
Newspaper clippings including some re wedding and children
Photographs 1947-1966.
Additional Note
Photographs and newspaper clippings concerning interest in boats and boat racing, including data on speed records and races won -- See also Carton 78 and vol. 54-55 and 72
John Harold Dollar [Sr.] (1887-1936)
Photographs, obituaries; data rememorial window, First Presbyterian Church, San Rafael; letters of condolence on his death.
Mrs. John Harold Dollar [Sr.]
Newspaper clippings concerning her marriage, 1907; obituaries, 1940
John Harold Dollar (Jr.] (1919-)
Biography, photographs, and newspaper clippings
Robert Dollar II (1912-1973)
Photographs and newspaper clippings
Alexander Melville Dollar (1878-1932)
Photographs
Mary Grace (Dollar) Dickson (1885-1921) [Mrs. Frederick William Dickson]
Obituary and photographs of Grace Dollar Memorial Building at the San Anselmo Orphanage (Sunny Hills Orphanage) -- See also Carton 19.
The Robert Dollar Company
California Brief history, 1903-1964 -- See also Cartons 25-30, 31-37, 63-66, and 68. See also vol. 27-29, 68-69.
Dollar Steamship Line (California)
History of Company 1903-1964
Outline of routes
Newspaper clippings
Circulars issued by Executive Department, San Francisco, to employees, agents, etc. 1922-1938
Comptroller's instructions to officers and agents
Freight traffic circulars
Instructions to branch managers
Lists of agents, particulars of vessels, operating data, etc.
General statistics, i.e., distances, time tables, etc.
Passenger tariffs and fares
Instructions to masters, pursers, and stewards
Pursers work book
Freight clerks work book
Circulars to Insurance, Passenger, and Stewards' Departments.
Employment records of various officers
Dollar Steamship Lines, Inc., Ltd. -- See also Cartons 19-23 and 67, and vol. 35
Delaware
History of company before and after it was taken over by American President Lines
Financial and reorganizational data including blue books issued by the U.S. Maritime Commission, 1938 and 1939, and copy of agreement respecting adjustment plan between U.S. Maritime Commission and Dollar of Delaware, August 15, 1938.
Dollar et al vs. Land et al: Dollar Case
List of material given to California Historical Society
Highlights. 1952
Additional Note
Dollar Steamship Line publicity items 1937-1938
Correspondence concerning Highlights
Editorials and press releases 1945-1952
Letters of congratulation re settlement of the case
Court decisions (incomplete)
Miscellaneous data -- See also Cartons 74-75, 77-78 and vol. 22-26
Dollar Associates, Inc.
Brief history
Dollar Investment Company
Brief history -- See also Carton 28.
Dollar Steamship Lines, Ltd. (Hongkong)
Brief history, 1922-1938. See also Carton 14. 1922-1938.
Dollar Steamship Lines, Ltd. (Victoria, British Columbia)
Brief history 1911-1928
Dollaradio, Simpson Radio Corporation, and Pacific Radio Company
Brief history, 1926-1930 -- See also Carton 18. 1926-1930
Dollar Air Lines, Inc.
Brief history 1946-1964
Dollar Lines, Ltd.
Historical data 1957-1958
Dollar Terminal Steamship Company
Historical data 1934-1938
Dollar Wharf and Warehouse Co. Fed. Inc. USA at Pootung, China
Historical data, 1917-1963. See also Carton 18. 1917-1963.
Dollar Industries
Historical data and material re Dollar winch
The Robert Dollar Co. Ltd. (B.C.)
Historical data, 1916-1966. See also Cartons 15 and 16. 1916-1966.
Dollar Timber Company
Historical data 1962-1965
Dollar Lumber Company
Historical data 1961-1964
Dollar Steamship Company - Portland, Maine
Brief history 1901-1910
Dollar Steamship Line - Portland, Maine
Brief histroy 1913-1916
Dollar Park - San Rafael, California
Data re Robert Dollar's gift of land
Robert Dollar Drive, San Rafael, California
Data re dedication ceremonies 1926
Lists of Towns, Cities, Streets, Buildings, etc. using name of Dollar
Senior Dollar Club House, Walnut Creek, California
Newspaper clippings re the club house at Rossmore which was formerly the R. Stanley Dollar Sr. Home
Dollar Garage - 115 Battery Street, San Francisco
Brief history of the building 1929-1962
Egmont Timber Co. Ltd.
Brief history, 1939-1965. See also Carton 16. 1939-1965.
Embarcadero Street Property - San Francisco
Historical data, map and plans for a proposed Seamen's Building 1929-1945
Exchange Garage, Inc.
Historical data and photographs 1946-1963
Exchange Garage - 115 Battery Street, San Francisco
Historical data 1929-1962
Falkirk, Scotland
Data (including photographs and newspaper clippings) relating to Dollar Family gifts to the town from 1886. See also Vol. 60.
Fearon Daniel Company and Fearon Brown & Company
Brief history 1921-1928
Glendale, Oregon
Photographs, brochure, reprints of an article, and advertising data relating to lumber mill property
Photographs, brochure, reprints of an article, and advertising data relating to lumber mill property
Globe Wireless, Ltd.
History and photographs, circulars and advertising data relating to operations in the United States and Far East, 1928-1960 -- See also Cartons 2, 30-33, and Vol. 45-47. 1928-1960
Dollar Homes
Photographs of homes in Scotland, Canada, Michigan and California
Heintz and Kaufman, Ltd.
Historical data, newspaper clippings, and photographs, 1919-1959 [some are HQK, Inc.] 1919-1959
Hangar Four Corporation
Historical data 1960-1966
Holiday Hotel, Reno, Nevada
Historical data and photographs 1955-1967
Hankow, China
Photographs of Robert Dollar Company property 1919-1930
Historical data re Dollar Lumber Company of Hankow, China 1915-1919
Hongkong, China
Photographs and desicrioptions of offices of Robert Dollar Company, Dollar Steamship Lines and Admiral Oriental Line.
Hunts Point, N.Y.
Photographs and maps of proposed terminal facilities
Hudson Associates, Incorporated
Brief history 1955-1958
Hookston Property, Contra Costa County, California
Newspaper articles re fire June 1964
Ichang, China
Photographs and description of Robert Dollar Company property and Yangstze River service -- See also Vo. 39-40
Johnson Farm Machinery Company
Brief history 1949-1951
Kiangsu Realty Company, Federal Inc. USA
Description, floor plans, and photographs of Robert Dollar Building, Shanghai; brief history of the company. See also Carton 18, 33 and 34.
Kobe, Japan
Photographs and description of buildings owned by Robert Dollar Company and Dollar Steam Lines.
Letterheads
Various Dollar companies.
Lumber Operations
Statistics on Dollar Company lumber operations; newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous booklets on lumber.
Lumber Mills and Logging Operations
Photographs of Robert Dollar's office at Bracebridge, Canada 1875
Brief history of opertations at Marquette, Michigan 1880-1887
Historical data and photographs of operations at Sonoma County and Usal, California 1890-1902
Brief history and photographs of Dollar Portland Lumber Company. See also Cartons 59-60 1877-1941.
Brief history, maps, and photographs of Eugene Lumber Company (Dollar, Oregon), 1930-1942. See also Cartons 60-61
Brief history and map of operations at Mabel, Oregon, 1925-1945. See also Cartons 55-59 1925-1945.
Brief history of operations at Donna, Oregon 1944-1947
Brief history and maps of operations at Bandon and Coquille, Oregon, 1915-1946. See also Carton 33. 1915-1946.
Blueprints of property and mill of Canadian Robert Dollar Company, Ltd. and the Robert Dollar Company, Ltd. at Dollarton, British Columbia.
Photographs and maps of property and operations at Dollarton, Union Bay, Port Moody, and Vancouver Bay, British Columbia.
Brief history and maps covering timber licenses of the Egmont Timber Comparty, Ltd., Vancouver Bay and Texada Island, British Columbia.
Locomotives
Data re Dollar Company's Shay Locomotives, loaned to Mt. Tamalpais Railroad, Marin County and donated to San Francisco Maritime Museum.
Memorials
Data re Dollar Memorial Windows, First Presbyterian Church, San Rafael, California (see also Cartons 5, 9-10) and re Memorial Room, Louise A. Boyd Natural Science Museum, San Rafael, California, honoring Carl Gabrielson; resolution, May 24, 1932, from American Bureau of Shipping on death of Robert Dollar.
Masonic Affiliations
By-laws, membership cards and newspaper clippings re lodge affiliations of Robert Dollar, A. Melville Dollar and R. Stanley Dollar, Sr.
Manila, Philippine Islands
Blueprints, floor plans and photographs of Robert Dollar Company buildings 1930-1948
Mexican Mail Steamship Company, Inc.
Data concerning service and operations of this subsidiary of Pacific Steamship Lines (The Admiral Line), from San Francisco and Los Angeles to ports in Mexico, together with schedules and fare sheets. See also Carton 17.
Nanking, China
Photographs and description of Robert Dollar Company lumberyard, 1922
Offices
Photographs and list of offices of the Robert Dollar Company and Dollar Steamship Lines from 1890
Olympic Steamship Company, Ltd.
Brief history 1925-1942
Philippine Inter-Island Steamship Company
History of operations, 1930-1944; sailing schedules, cabin plans, and photograph of SS. Mayon; annual report for 1936. See also cartons 34-36 and 73
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
History; annual reports 1920-1922; sailing schedules; log books, 1868-1906; photographs; newspaper clippings.
Pacific Steamship Company (The Admiral Line)
History by Hugh B. Brittan
Sailing schedules, cabin plans, and data re service
Tariffs
Advertising and ticket sale data
Shipping registers 1930, 1937
Data re Mexican Mail Steamship Co., Inc. (subsidiary)
Photographs of ships
Instructions to various departments, agents, and employees
Data on Admiral Line Officer' Club -- See also Vol. 44
Portland-California Steamship Company
History of operations 1927-1939
Pacific Motorship Company
History of operations 1923-1936
Pacific Steamship Terminal Company and Pacific Terminals, Inc.
History of operations 1924-1941
Pacific Radio Company
Brief history of the company which was organized in 1928 for the purpose of acquiring from Simpson Radio Corporation various patents and inventions, which were eventually acquired by Globe Wireless, Ltd.
Peking, China
Photographs and description of Robert Dollar Company property 1921
Pootung, China
Photographs and map of Robert Dollar Company property
Publicity and advertising
Press releases relating mainly to various Dollar Companies and Dollar family activities; and advertising data. 1947-1958;
Ritan-Wentworth Timber Company
Brief history -- See also Carton 59 1908-1943
Shanghai, China
Photographs and descriptions of Robert Dollar Company property (wharf facilities, Robert Dollar School, Dollar residence, lumber yard property, etc.); brief history of Dollar Wharf and Warehouse Company Federal Inc. USA.
Robert Dollar Building, Shanghai (owned by Kiangsu Realty Company Federal Inc. USA)
Photographs of construction and of completed building; description and floor plans
Singapore, S.S.
Description and photographs of Robert Dollar Company and Dollar Steamship Lines offices
Success Articles
By Captain Robert Dollar including booklet distributed to employees of Robert Dollar Company
Sunny Hills Orphanage (formerly San Francisco Presbyterian Orphanage and Farm), San Anselmo, California
General information, photographs of Grace Dollar Dickson Memorial Cottages, booklet re Robert Dollar Boys' Hall, excerpts from Captain Robert Dollar's diaries (1897-1932) in connection with activities for the orphanage.
San Francisco Theological Seminary
Data concerning gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dollar 1917-1923
Ships and Shipping
Data re Dollar Fleet, prepared by Captain E. E. Johnson 1895-1938
Book of photographs various Dollar and other ships
History of Dollar Line operations 1895-1910
Outline of history of Dollar Steamship Lines, by, C. T. Surridge 1944
Operating statistics, voyage estimates, cargo capacities, drydocking, etc.
Data re other American-owned fleet stack insignias, etc.
Log books (in German) of the S. V. Hans 1907-1909
Log books (in German) of the S. V. Hans 1910-1912
Index of ships owned by the Dollars
Photographs and, occasionally, specifications of Dollar ships (except President ships), including:
Schooner Newsboy,
SS. Arab,
SS. Rival,
SS. Noyo,
SS. Mackinaw,
SS. Cleone,
SS. Sequoia,
SS. James Dollar (ex John S. Kimball),
SS. Albion,
SS. Grace Dollar,
S.S.Bessie Dollar,
S.S. Hazel Dollar,
S.S. Stanley Dollar,
S.S. Esther Dollar,
S.S. M.S. Dollar,
S.S. Robert Dollar,
S.S. Harold Dollar,
S.S Melville Dollar,
S.S. Margaret Dollar (ex Celestial),
S.S. Stuart Dollar (ex Mandarin),
S.S. Celestial (renamed S.S. Margaret Dollar),
S.S. Oriental (renamed S.S. Melville Dollar),
S.S. Cathay (renamed S.S. Diana Dollar),
S.S. Mandarin (renamed S.S. Stuart Dollar),
S.S. Virginia Dollar,
S.S. Agnes Dollar,
Auxiliary Schooner May,
S.S. Robert Dollar II,
S.S. Alice Dollar,
Tender A.B. Dollar,
Tender Dah Lay,
Tender Dollar,
Sailing Vessel John Ena,
Sailing Vessel Janet Dollar,
Sailing Vessel Mary Dollar,
Sailing Vessel Joseph Dollar,
Sailing Vessel Reinbeck,
Sailing Vessel William Dollar.
Correspondence (copies), lists of vessels, photographs, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous data re sailing vessels 1934-1961
Rigging plan for sailing vessel James Dollar (negative photostat)
President ships (502 and 535 types):
Documents covering purchase 1923-1926
Photographs
Cabin plans
Passenger and freight sailing schedules 1920-1937
Menus
Passenger fare sheets 1931-1933
Descriptive folders re accommodations.
SS. President Coolidge
Specifications for construction (hull# 340) at Newport News, Virginia
Newspaper articles re launching
Newspaper articles re launching
Photographs of launching and of the ship in several ports
Newspaper clippings covering sinking in South Pacific 1942
Brochures and pamphlets describing hull, machinery, passenger accommodations, etc. See also Vol. 31 and 33
SS. President Hoover
Specifications for construction (hull# 339) at Newport News, Virginia
Photographs and newspaper clippings re launching; photographs in several ports on maiden voyage and grounding off Formosa 1937
Magazine articles and brochures describing hull, machinery, accommodations, cabin plans, etc.
Brochure of passenger accommodations, blueprints, cabin plans, drawings and sketches of the SS. President Hoover and SS. President Coolidge.
Albums and scrapbooks compiled by Captain Elisha A. Cooper containing newspaper clippings relating to the SS. President Hoover grounding off Formosa, 1937, other Dollar ships, personnel, etc.
Dollar uniform insignia worn by Captain Cooper -- See also Vol. 32 and 33
Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company
History; ship schedules -- See also Cartons 53-55 1928-1940;
Tientsin, China
Photographs and description of Robert Dollar Company operations from 1910
Tsingtao, China
Photograph of Robert Dollar Company lumberyard
Triangle Kapok Machine Corporation
History of company and its operations 1923-1935
Wuchang, China
Photographs of Blind Girls Home
Wuhu, China
Sketch of Robert Dollar Company property
Additional Papers
Robert Dollar Company
General correspondence, re ship maintainance; sale of ships, lumber and other property; etc. 1915-1945
1915-1936 1915-1936
1937-July 1940 1937-July 1940
Aug. 1940-May 1945 Aug. 1940-May 1945
June 1945-Dec. 1945 June 1945-Dec. 1945
Dollar Investment Company
General correspondence 1907-1954
Robert Dollar Company
Radio communication stations. General correspondence, arranged by station and thereunder chronologically
Robert Dollar Company and Globe Wireless, Ltd.
General correspondence 1928-1959
1928-1929 1928-1929
1930-1939 1930-1939
1940-1941, 1957, 1959 1940-1941, 1957, 1959
Robert Dollar Company - Globe Wireless, Ltd.
Patents, financial statements, contracts, copyrights, etc.
Radio news published on steamers 1930
Inter-City Radio Co.
General correspondence 1929-1930
Bandon/Coos Bay/Coquille, Oregon. Robert Dollar Company property.
General correspondence
Legal papers 1904-1939
Kiangsu Realty Company and Kiangsu Realty Company Federal
Inc. USA [Shanghai] Monthly financial statements 1929-1938
Kiangsu Realty Company and Kiangsu Realty Company Federal
Inc. USA General correspondence, 1931-1942, concerning rental of Robert Dollar Company in Shanghai 1931-1942
Drafts of agreements (copies), balance sheets, and some correspondence, 1940-1941, concerning a proposed statutory merger of several companies into the Philippine Inter-Island Steamship Company (Nevada).
Philippine Inter-Island Steam ship Company
General correspondence, concerning earnings and operating costs, and other financial matters. 1930-1944
1930-1936 1930-1936
1937-1944 1937-1944
S.S. Mayon voyage results 1932-1938
Information on revenue, operating expenses, miles and hours travelled, number of passengers, fuel oil consumption, cargo tonnage, net profit or loss, etc.
1932-1936 1932-1936
1937-1938 1937-1938
S.S. Mayon revenue figures -- See also Carton 73 Nov. 1930-1938
Robert Dollar Company
Outgoing letters (carbons) 1936-1937
Additional Note
Outgoing letters (carbons) 1938-1944
Additional Note
Reference File
Newsletter issued by Congressional Information Bureau, Washington D.C.
Jan. 1959 -Feb. 1960 Jan. 1959 -Feb. 1960
Mar. -Dec. 1960 Mar. -Dec. 1960
Reference file
U.S. Maritime Commission
Press releases 1937-1941
Press releases 1941
Speeches 1937-1943
American Mail Line Ltd.
Financial records, 1927-1938 1927-1938
1927 -Nov. 1930, including correspondence 1927 -Nov. 1930
Dec. 1930 -Apr. 1933 Dec. 1930 -Apr. 1933
May 1933 -Dec. 1934 May 1933 -Dec. 1934
1935 1935
Jan. -Aug. 1936 Jan. -Aug. 1936
Sept. 1936 -Feb. 1937 Sept. 1936 -Feb. 1937
Mar. -Sept. 1937 Mar. -Sept. 1937
Oct. 1937 -Feb. 1938 Oct. 1937 -Feb. 1938
Mar. -Aug. 1938 Mar. -Aug. 1938
Sept. -Dec. 1938 Sept. -Dec. 1938
American Mail Line Ltd.
Applications for subsidy 1937
Admiral Oriental Line
Income and profit and loss reports 1936-1942
1936-1938 1936-1938
1940-Oct. 1941 1940-Oct. 1941
Nov. 1941 -Dec. 1942 Nov. 1941 -Dec. 1942
Admiral Oriental Line
Cash book and journal attachments 1943-June 1944
Tacoma Oriental Steamship Company
Financial records, including correspondence 1928-1940
1928-1933 1928-1933
1934-Apr. 1937 1934-Apr. 1937
May 1937 -1940 May 1937 -1940
Robert Dollar Company
Mabel, Oregon property
Correspondence relating mainly to purchase and sale of equipment and property 1911-1960
Correspondence and other papers relating to sale of Mabel properties to Fisher Lumber Company 1946-1953
Daily reports of logging operations 1944-1946
Mabel Division reports (mainly invoices and receipts). Jan. 1944-Nov. 1945
Mabel Division Revenue, expenses and miscellaneous attachments Jan. 1946 -Dec. 1947
Miscellaneous letters and papers, relating to logging operations. 1946-1947
Robert Dollar Company. Bush Street Building (San Francisco)
Attachments, revenue, expenses, etc. Jan. 1946 -Oct. 1947
Ritan - Wentworth Lumber Company
Balance sheets 1929-1943
Dollar Portland Lumber Company
Correspondence and papers, 1900-1930. 1900-1930
1900-1922 1900-1922
1923-1930 1923-1930
Eugene Lumber Company
Correspondence re finances. 1932-1942
Reports on examinations of accounts. 1938-1940
General correspondence. 1930-1934
General correspondence. 1935-1946
Robert Dollar Company - Seattle Division.
Reports, revenue and expenditures. 1945-1946
Robert Dollar Company
Cash books and journal attachments. 1943-1945
1943 -Mar. 1944 1943 -Mar. 1944
Apr. 1944 -June 1945 Apr. 1944 -June 1945
July -Dec. 1945 July -Dec. 1945
Robert Dollar Company
Executive office attachments. 1946
All Companies.
Cash receipts and disbursements. Jan. 1947 -Apr. 1948
Cash reports. Jan. 5, 1949 -July 12, 1950
Dollar Steamship Line (California)
General correspondence. 1910-1951
Minutes of weekly conferences 1934, 1936-1937
Robert Dollar Company (various Divisions)
Tax information
Group Insurance
Letters of credit
Wage agreements and scales
Appraisals (equipment)
Financial records
Transcripts of U.S. Senate hearings on ocean mail and air mail contracts. 1933 -1934
Report of proceedings of special U.S. Senate Committee to Investigate Ocean Mail and Air Mail Contracts (Black Committee). 1933-1934
Transcripts of hearings before the Postmaster General on ocean mail contracts. 1934
Correspondence relating to hearings before the Postmaster General on ocean mail contracts. 1934
Pamphlets, etc, relating to ocean mail contracts
Pamphlets (mainly government publications) covering laws relating to shipping and
Transcripts of hearings before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce concerning sale of "535 - type" ships to Admiral Line. 1926
Data concerning voyage of the United States Congressional party to the inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth Government in Manila in 1935, on the S.S. President Grant.
Specifications and photographs of the T.S.S. Kedah
Specifications of the S.S. Mayon (based on the T.S.S. Kedah) built for Dollar's Philippine Inter-Island Service
Correspondence concerning construction of the S.S. Mayon; data on trial trips, fuel, reefer, and turbine spares.
Miscellaneous specifications and blueprints
The China Pilot, 1864. 1864
Instructions for pilots
Newspaper clippings, 1946 -1957 relating mainly to company activities and to the suit brought by the Dollars against the U.S. Maritime Commission to recover their property (Dollar et al vs. Land et al). 1946 -1957
1946 -Apr. 1951 1946 -Apr. 1951
Apr. 1951 -1957 Apr. 1951 -1957
Negative photostats of newspaper articles re Robert Dollar, R. Stanley Dollar, and Dollar Steamship Lines, included in Vol. 16-20
Dollar et al vs. Land et al -- See also Vol. 22-26
Drafts of briefs
Briefs
Joint appendix to briefs
Correspondence (copies)
Press releases
Newspaper clippings
Newspaper clippings re speedboat races entered by R. Stanley Dollar, Jr., 1949 1949
Academic hood worn by Robert Dollar when he received an honorary degree from Mills College
Letters of condolence on the death of Robert Dollar
Typed transcripts (carbons) of diaries of Captain Robert Dollar, 1872-1932 1872-1932
Captain Dollar's scrapbooks, 1902-1932. Mainly newspaper clippings re business and family activities 1902-1932.
Newspaper articles (photocopies), 1880-1938, about Captain Robert Dollar, R. Stanley Dollar, and Dollar Steamship Lines (negative photostats are in Cartons 75-77) 1880-1938
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings re Captain Robert Dollar's trip to the Far East, 1930 1930
Newspaper clippings re Dollar Line Case (Dollar et al vs. Land et al), 1945-1954 1945-1954
Newspaper clippings re the Robert Dollar Company, 1946-1957 1946-1957
Newspaper clippings re R. Stanley Dollar and family, 1932-1939 1932-1939
Photographs of SS. President Coolidge during construction, 1930-1931 1930-1931
Photographs of SS. President Hoover during construction, 1930-1931 1930-1931
Photographs of SS. President Hoover and SS. President Coolidge during construction, 1930-1931 1930-1931
Photographs, mainly of Robert Dollar with various dignitaries and of Dollar Company property
Photographs of Dollar Company owned offices and facilities at the time the Government took over Dollar of Delaware, 1938 1938
Photographs of Robert Dollar Building, 311 California Street, San Francisco
Photographs of various Dollar properties in Orient, ca. 1945-1956 ca. 1945-1956
Photographs of views of the Orient, 1917 1917
Photographs of Yangtsze River Service, Robert Dollar Company
Photographs of scenes in China
Photographs of scenes showing reconstruction in Yokahama after earthquake, 1929 1929
Photographs - Canada, China, California, etc.
Pacific Steamship Company Statistics of fleet, 1923-1932 1923-1932
Globe Wireless Ltd.: Publicity and advertising
Newspaper clippings concerning resumption of trans-Pacific service after World War II, business activities, personnel, news stories reported by Globe Wireless Stations, copies of ads from newspapers and magazines
South Pacific Air Lines, Inc.
General information
Photographs of flying boats of South Pacific Air Lines, Inc.
Photographs relating to Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award, 1938-1966 1938-1966
Photographs relating to Captain Robert Dollar Memorial Award, 1938-1957 1938-1957
Data and photographs relating to Captain Robert Dollar World Trade Library, San Francisco
Log Book, Schooner Bertie Minor, Aug. 15 -Dec. 16, 1912 Aug. 15 -Dec. 16, 1912
Photographs of Skip-A-Log of California, 1948-1949, the racing boat owned by R. Stanley Dollar, Jr. 1948-1949
Saturday Evening Post articles about Robert Dollar written by Ernest Poole, 1929. Includes also, two letters from Poole and replies (carbons), 1935. 1935
Obituaries for Robert Dollar, 1932 1932
Memorial on Captain Dollar's death from San Rafael (Calif.) Park Commission, 1932 1932
Memorial on Captain Dollar's death from Bank of San Rafael, Calif., 1932 1932
Newspaper clippings re Dollar Park at Falkirk, Scotland
Photographs and letters (copies) relating to testimonial dinner for Clarence Francis, Sept. 15, 1954 Sept. 15, 1954
Photocopies of miscellaneous documents and letters, Melville Family, 1798-1868 1798-1868
Analysis of earnings and expenses, Round-The-World and Inter-Coastal ships, from 1924
Bills of lading. SS. President Van Buren, 1924 1924
Bills of lading. SS. President Polk, 1924 1924
Bills of lading. SS. President Adams, 1923-1924 1923-1924
Robert Dollar Company private code. 1926 1926
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Negative photostats of newspaper articles, 1903-1933, re Harmsworth Trophy races, compiled by Roberta Gerke, 1949 1903-1933
Newspaper clippings re R. Stanley Dollar, Jr.'s participation in a speedboat race in Paris, 1935 1935
Selected items digitized from this collection.
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Entrance to Robert Dollar Building, San Francisco. June 17, 1929 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Robert Dollar in front of Dollar Line float for the Harbor Day Parade. August 21, 1930 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Two men on a speedboat, Lake Tahoe. circa 1950 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Speedboat at Lake Tahoe. circa 1950 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Speedboat at Lake Tahoe (detail). circa 1950 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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R. Stanley Dollar, Jr. and Nancy with Tahoe Yacht Club trophies. September 13, 1953 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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R. Stanley Dollar, Jr. posing with speedboat. September 1954 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Sinking speedboat, Lake Tahoe. September 1954 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Crane attached to sinking speedboat, Lake Tahoe. September 12, 1954 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Front door of Grace Dollar Memorial Building. 1921? BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Grace Dollar Memorial Building, San Anselmo Orphanage. 1921 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Interior of Dollar Steamship Line office in Boston. circa 1920s BANC MSS 69/113 c
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SS Margaret Dollar, formerly the SS Celestial. circa 1922-1936 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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The first passenger auto ashore [from S.S. President Hoover]. 1937-1938 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Dining room roof [of S.S. President Hoover]. 1937-1938 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Looking to port [of S.S. President Hoover]. 1937-1938 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Stbd. aft [?] corner [of S.S. President Hoover]. 1937-1938 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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The shell plating [of S.S. President Hoover]. 1937-1938 BANC MSS 69/113 c
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Album page, top: Mr. And Mrs. Robert Dollar and party on board S.S. President Jackson, Seattle; bottom: Mr. Robert Dollar and Mr. A. F. Haines. November 10, 1923 BANC MSS 69/113 c