Robert G. Manette photograph collection, 1897-1982 (bulk 1926-1971).

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

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Matson Navigation Company

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Manette, Robert G.

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Robert G. Manette was a passenger representative for the San Francisco Branch of the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, which was established in New Zealand in 1875 and transported both passengers and freight. In 1914, at its height, it was the largest shipping company in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1917, Union Steamship was acquired by the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company (P&O) but retained its own identity. According to The Ships List, the company entered into a joint ventur...

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, ltd.

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Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

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Founded in 1837 to carry mail between the Iberian Peninsula and England. In 1842 the service was extended to India and in 1845 to Singapore. By 1852 P & O steamships were in Australian waters. From the description of Financial records. 1896-1981. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 223263440 ...

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." ...

Southern Pacific Company

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What started as a boycott by the American Railway Union against Pullman's Palace Car Co. in 1894 escalated to a strike covering the area from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. On the premise of interfering with the mails the federal government intervened and crushed the strike. From the description of Journal of incidents in San Francisco resulting from the American Railway Union strike, 1894 June 27-Aug. 31. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record ...

Pacific Steamship Company

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Cunard White Star, ltd.

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Cunard Steamship Company, ltd.

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Founded in 1840. Has been a premier transatlantic passenger and cargo carrier. From the description of Bills of lading for the Cunard Steamship Company 1915. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 45671727 ...