American President Lines records, 1871-1995.

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.). Historic Documents Dept.

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Dollar Steamship Lines

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The American President Lines was formed in 1938 after the U.S. Maritime Commission purchased the Dollar Steamship Company. From the description of Logbooks of the Dollar Steamship Lines and American President Lines, 1930-1940. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 49292417 ...

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...

Palmer, Alfred T.

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Previous owner Jim Weinberger, Sr., began his career with Dollar Steamship Company. From the description of Alfred T. Palmer photograph of President Cleveland (passenger vessel), after 1947. (San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Library). WorldCat record id: 698133823 ...

American President Lines, Ltd.

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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." ...