Photographs of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company [graphic]. [ca. 1871-1872]

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Photographs of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company [graphic]. [ca. 1871-1872]

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Contains mammoth plate photos of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company docks, located on First Street in San Francisco, Calif. Includes images of steamships (including the "Senator" and the "Japan"), sailing vessels, colliers, coaling dock with coal cars on elevated tracks, a steam-powered crane on wheels, and piles of lumber. Many Pacific Mail Steamship Company workers are shown, and what appears to be a few company officials dressed in business attire. One photo is taken from a distance and shows mastheads and rooftops of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Watkins' horse-drawn photographic wagon is pictured in three of the photos.

5 photographic prints (mounted) : albumen ; 40 x 53 cm. or smaller.

California historical society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6741893

California historical society

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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Watkins was a pioneer California photographer, most well known for his large-format photographs. From the description of Views of Thurlow Lodge by Carleton Watkins: photograph album, circa 1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510599 An American landscape photographer, Carleton E. Watkins was noted for his views of the Pacific Northwest and Yosemite. From the description of Carleton E. Watkins Collection. [1879]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); ...

Senator (Ship)

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Japan (Ship : 1831-1837)

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Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by John Tobey; owner-agent: James Athearn & Co. From the description of Log/journal, 1838 June 10-1841 Feb. 11. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013742 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by John Tobey. From the description of Accounts, 1836-1841. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71014233 Whaling vessel, out of Nantucket, Mass., mastered by William Pla...

Pacific Mail Steamship Company

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The Pacific Mail Steamship Company was incorporated in 1848 to engage in the steamship business after receiving a contract from the U.S. government to provide mail service between Panama and the Oregon coast. The organizer and first president of the company was William H. Aspinwall. The company prospered, expanded its fleet, and began service to the Orient in 1867. By the mid-1880s they were sailing to 47 ports across the Pacific Ocean, including ports in Central America and Mexico. T...

Pacific Mail Steamship Comany

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