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Do you love eating dinner on the Delta King? How about touring the Queen Mary or enjoying Fisherman’s Wharf? Catch a glimpse of our mar-itime history in our carefully curated selection of images, ephemera and books. If you want more information about California shipping history, consider viewing our research guide to Ships and Shipping in California or contacting us via the following methods.

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V ISUALS

Aston, Frank. (1911) [S.S. Santa Rosa

wrecked near Point Arguello, Cal. July

7, 1911 No. 17 [postcard]. [San Luis

Obispo, Cal.?] : Aston.

City of Panama Crew. (1880). [Menu]. San Francisco: LeCount Bros.

Bray, Charles E. (1905). Queen of the Isle. Los Angeles, Allen-Russell Co.

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Dressler, Albert. (1895-1906). Ready to Drop Anchor.

Committee of Arrangements. (1898). Reception Committee: Liet. Hobson.

[Civic Center, airview]. (c1940.)

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Gray, Ernest. (1918). [United States Naval Training Camp, San Diego, California] : [photograph album].

Endicott & Co. Lith. (c1868). Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company’s Steamer, Montana. N.Y. : L. R. Menger

Free Harbor Jubilee, San Pedro: April 26 & 27 1899. (1899). Los Angeles: F.O. Graham.

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Gray, Ernest. (1918). [United States Naval Training Camp, San Diego, California] : [photograph album].

Gray, Ernest. (1918). [United States Naval Training Camp, San Diego, California] : [photograph album].

Gray, Ernest. (1918). [United States Naval Training Camp, San Diego, California] : [photograph album].

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Hunt, Major C. (1896). Pride of the Navy March. San Francisco: Freygang-Leary Co.

[Hanlon Drydock & Shipbuilding Company, Oakland]. (1918).

Horne. (c1900). [Fleet].

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Moonlight scene on Sacramento River, showing Steamer Capital City. (c1912). San Francisco: O. Newman Co.

Matson Navigation Company. (1922). S.S. Enterprise: Voyage 205--Hilo to San Francisco. Hilo: Matson Navigation Company.

Jones, Earle C and Egbert Van Alstyne. (1912). Frisco Dan. New York: Jerome H. Remick & Co.

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Osgood, Samuel. (N.D.). A 1 out-and-out extreme clipper ship!! insures at extreme low rates...For San Francisco, The A 1 Well-Known extreme clipper ship Ocean Express

Official Committee for the Reception

of the Fleet. (1908). Official Program:

California's Welcome to the Fleet, San

Francisco, May, 1908. San Francisco:

California Promotion Committee.

Old Spanish Lighthouse, Point Loma Cal., (c1906). CYKO (Ansco Company) : AZO (Kodak).

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[Pacific Fleet]. (c1913).

Pacific Coast Steamship Company. (1879). Time Table: July 1879. San Francisco: Bacon & Company.

Pacific American. (1894, May) Vol. 6

No. 5. San Francisco: Pacific American

Company

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The River Lines, San Francisco daily Sacramento, leave 6.30 P.M. arrive 5.30 A.M. (c1927-1939).

"Queen of the Pacific" [Photo].

(1880).

[Ranger survey ship, San Diego]. (c1890). Longmont (Colo.): Stiffler & Morgan.

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Union Iron Works. (1901). Ohio. San Francisco: Stanley-Taylor Co.

Taber, Isaiah. (1884). International Boat Race, Bay of San Francisco, April 19, 1884, B 875. San Francisco: Taber Photo.

To San Francisco Dry Dock…(1863.)

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United States. Army. Signal Corps. (1940-1945). [World War II, Phillippine Campaign].

Union Iron Works. (1893). The Pleasure of Your Company is Requested to Witness the Launch of the Armored Coast Line Battle Ship Oregon. San Francisco: Union Iron Works.

Union Iron Works & Native Sons of

the Golden West. (1904). Under the

Auspices of the Native Sons of the

Golden West the United Iron works

requests the pleasure of your company

at the Launching of the United States

Armored Cruiser "California." N.L.:

Shreve & Co.

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U.S.S. California. (c1921).

U.S.S. California: Battleship Number 44 (c.1920) [Pamphlet].

U.S. Naval Practice, Exploding a Mine, San Diego Bay, San Diego, Cal. (c1911). Los Angeles: Benham Co. [Postcard].

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Welcome to the Pacific Shores. U.S. Flagship Connecticut, "Pride of the Waters" (1908). San Francisco : Galloway Litho Co.

Waterman, Charles E. (1911). U.S.S. California. San Francisco: C.E. Waterman

Welcome Pacific Fleet 1919. (1919). San Francisco: Walter N. Brunt.

BOOKS

Brown, G. (1966). Ships that sail no more: Marine transportation from San Diego to Puget Sound, 1910-1940. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.

Duhaut-Cilly, A., Frugé, A., & Harlow, N. (1999). A voyage to California, the Sandwich Islands & around the world in the years, 1826-1829. Berkeley: University of California Press.

George, G., & Rights, M. (1979). The moveable fleet : A boatwatcher's guide to San Francisco Bay (1st ed., A California living book). San Francisco: California Living Books.

BOOKS

Hittell, T. (1963). El Triunfo de la Cruz : The first ship built in the Californias (Special publication (California Historical Society) no. 38). San Francisco: California Historical Society.

Hardeman, N. (1986). Harbor of the heartlands : A history of the inland seaport of Stockton, California, from the Gold Rush to 1985. Stockton: Holt-Atherton Center for Western Studies.

Herrick, L., Russell, A., Good, M., & Lindgren, M. (1998). Voyage to California written at sea, 1852 : The journal of Lucy Kendall Herrick. San Marino: Huntington Library.

BOOKS

Iselin, I. (1999). Journal of a trading voyage around the world, 1805-1808. Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press.

Leffingwell, R., & Welty, P. (2000). Lighthouses of the Pacific coast : Your guide to the lighthouses of California, Oregon, and Washington (Pictorial discovery guide). Stillwater: Voyageur Press.

Kinder, G. (1998). Ship of gold in the deep blue sea (1st ed.). New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.

BOOKS

Linder, B. (2001). San Diego's Navy : An illustrated history. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.

Martin, W., & National Maritime Museum Association. (1983). Sail & steam on the Northern California coast, 1850-1900. San Francisco: National Maritime Museum Association in cooperation with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Marquez, E. (1975). Port Los Angeles : A phenomenon of the railroad era. San Marino: Golden West Books.

BOOKS

Phelan, R. (1999). They came around the Horn (1st ed.). Spokane: Prosperity Press.

Olmsted, R., & Olmsted, Nancy C. (1988). Scow schooners of San Francisco Bay (1st ed., Local history studies. v. 33). Cupertino: California History Center, De Anza College.

Shaw, D. (2000). Flying Cloud : The true story of America's most famous clipper ship and the woman who guided her (1st ed.). New York: W. Morrow.

BOOKS

Shepherd, M. (2011). The sea captain's odyssey : A biography of Captain H.H. Buhne. Walnut Creek: Georgie Press.

Stindt, F. (1982). Matson's century of ships. Kelseyville: F.A. Stindt.

Thrower, & Thrower, Norman Joseph William. (1984). Sir Francis Drake and the famous voyage, 1577-1580 : Essays commemorating the quadricentennial of Drake's circumnavigation of the earth. Berkeley: University of California Press.

BOOKS

Veronico, N. (2007). World War II shipyards by the Bay (Images of America). Charleston: Arcadia.

West Sacramento Historical Society. (2007). Port of Sacramento (Images of America). Charleston: Arcadia Pub.

Trimble, Knorp, & Knorp, William. (2007). Ferries of San Francisco Bay (Images of America). San Francisco: Arcadia Pub.

OTHER V ISUALS B IBLIOGRAPHY

A Salute from U.S. Naval Training Station. (N.D.). San Diego: Hopkins News Agency.

Associated Oil Company. (1933). Official Program: U.S. Frigates Constitution commissioned 1997 at San Francisco 1933. San Francisco: Associated Oil Company.

Away to California. (N.D.). N.L.: N.S. Benton, Joseph A. (c1849). Voyage from Boston to San Francisco,

Alt. Califor. in the ship Edward Everett : left the wharf in Boston Thursday, January eleventh, A.D. 1849. Reached the anchorage ground at San Francisco; July 6th, 1849. N.L.: Joseph Benton.

California Maritime Academy. (1971). Graduation Class of 1971: California Maritime Academy. N.L.: Office of State Print-ing.

California Transportation Company. (N.D.)). Travel by Water Through the Heart of California. N.L.: California Trans-portation Company.

[Canoe]. (N.D.). N.L.: N.S. F.M. (N.D.). [Warship].Hornblower Cruises and Events. (N.D.) An Invitation to come

aboard. N.L.: Hornblower Cruises and Events. (18046) London, Jack. (1931). Sea Wolf. New York : Grosset & Dunlop. Mansion Belle River Cruises. (c1958). Moonlight Cruise.

[Sacramento]: [Mansion Belle River Cruises]. McCurry Foto Company. (1927). [Delta Queen]. National Liberty Ship Memorial. (c1991). Welcome aboard the

S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien: America's Last Unaltered Liberty Ship. San Francisco: National Liberty Ship Memorial.

Native Sons of the Golden West. (c1904). Launching of the ar-mored cruiser "California" : under the auspices of the Na-tive Sons of the Golden West at the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, April 28, 1904. (c1904). San Francisco : Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden.

Oakland District of the California Council of Dads Clubs. (1933). Petition for the Permanent Preservation of the United

OTHER V ISUALS B IBLIOGRAPHY

States Frigate Constitution. Oakland: Oakland District of the California Council of Dads Clubs.

Panama Pacific Line. (1928). California-New York: The Panama Canal Route. San Francisco: Panama Pacific Line.

Recruit days at San Diego. (1950). San Diego, Calif.? : U.S.N. San Francisco Auto Ferries. (1928). N.L.: N.S. Season’s Greetings: U.S.S. Medusa. (1925). (Greeting Card).

(60864). Ship Ashore / Smith River, Calif. (N.D.) [Pennant]. (59362) Southern Pacific. (N.D.). A Delightful Boat Ride-Day or Night on

San Francisco Bay Richmond Ferry. San Francisco: South-ern Pacific.

Souvenir of Uncle Sam’s great fleet on the Pacific. (c1908). San Francisco, Pacific novelty co.

Souvenir: Water Carnival. (N.D.). San Francisco: Walter N. Brunt.

Stockton Chamber of Commerce. (N.D.). Stockton. California's only inland deep water port. N.L.: Stockton Chamber of Commerce. (46912)

[Unidentified Naval Vessel]. (N.D.). N.L.: N.S. Vallejo Chamber of Commerce. Armed Services Committee.

(1964). Mare Island Naval Shipyard: Nuclear Ship Center of the Pacific Area. Vallejo: Vallejo Chamber of Com-merce. Armed Services Committee.

Welcome Home S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien. (1994). San Francisco: N.S.

OTHER BOOKS B IBLIOGRAPHY

Halligan, J. (1983). The ships named Sacramento : The sloop, the gunboat and the fast combat supply vessel. Sacramento: J. Halligan.

Hoffman, E. (1957). American President Lines' role in World War II. San Francisco: S.N.

Hurd, E. (1964). Sailors, whalers & steamers; ships that opened the West. (A Sunset book). Menlo Park: Lane Book.

Jenks, K. (2012). Trading the contract : The roles of entrepre-neurs, government, and labor in the formation of the pacif-ic mail steamship company. Irvine: University of California, Irvine.

Keating, B. (1986). The legend of the Delta Queen. New Orleans: Delta Queen Steamboat.

Knowles, J. (1957). Crusoes of Pitcairn Island : The shipwreck dia-ry of Captain Josiah N. Knowles, master of the California clipper Wild Wave, 1858 (Early California travels series. 38). Los Angeles: G. Dawson.

Lyon, M., Reynolds, F., Black Swan Letterpress Printing Design, & Mills College. Center for the Book. (1992). The Flying Cloud and her first passengers. Oakland: Center for the Book, Mills College.

Minor, W. (2000). Pacific gateway : An illustrated history of the Port of Oakland. Oakland: The Port.

Schwendinger, R., & Marine Exchange Inc. (1984). International port of call : An illustrated maritime history of the Golden Gate (1st ed.). Woodland Hills: Windsor Publications.

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