American President Lines Records, 1871-1995

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American President Lines Records, 1871-1995

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4j49n761

Approximately 575 linear feet total.; HDC 279: 501.61 linear feet.; P96-007: 60.1 linear feet, 85 motion picture reels, and 41 videocassettes.; SAFR-891: 1016 items.

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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (Calif.). Historic Documents Department

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SNAC Resource ID: 6664503

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Dollar

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p10c72 (corporateBody)

American President Lines, Ltd.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c58gxw (corporateBody)

Agency History American President Lines, for many years the largest American shipping company in the Pacific, was formed in 1938 from the remnants of the Dollar Steamship Company. Organized in 1900, Dollar spent its first two decades in the transpacific trade as "essentially a tramp operator, whose main cargoes were bulk, low-value merchandise not suitable for the larger and faster passenger-cargo liners of the Pacific Mail Steamship Lines." ...