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Title: [Southern Pacific ferryboat "Sacramento"]
Date Created and/or Issued: 192u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted: lantern slides not available for public viewing.
Description: 2018-1388.
"05/107" -- handwritten on cover glass.
Cover glass and taped edges.
Online image only, no photographic print available.
Restricted: lantern slides not available for public viewing.
James Fair and Alfred Davis, owners of South Pacific Coast Railroad hired William Edwin Colyer to build steam ferryboats to carry their passengers across the Bay to San Francisco. Launched in 1877, named the "Newark," worked the Oakland-San Francisco run until 1923. Rebuilt in 1923 and renamed the "Sacramento".
Type: image
Format: Projected
Slide
Photographs.
Projected graphic
Projected medium
Extent: 1 slide : lantern, color ; 3 1/4 x 4 in.
Identifier: (C)001629319CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Southern Pacific Company--Photographs
Ferries--California--San Francisco Bay
Lifeboats--California--San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Photographs
Lantern slides
Place: California
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)

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