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American President Lines Records

About this Collection

Collection Summary: Approximately 575 linear feet including folders of textual materials,
ledgers and logbooks, oversize folders of textual or graphic material, scrapbooks,
photographic prints in standard and oversize formats, negatives, transparencies, motion
picture film, audiotape and objects. The collection is comprised of two large
acquisitions. The first portion, accessioned in 1983 and processed in 1987, consists of
approximately 308 linear feet of logbooks and other corporate documents (bulk 1927-1943).
The second portion (bulk 1938-1988), with which this finding aid is primarily concerned,
was transferred from American President Lines (APL) to the San Francisco Maritime NHP
Historic Documents Department in February 1995....
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