Image / C.P. ferry boat, "Solano," in Port Costa slip. B3799.

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Title: C.P. ferry boat, "Solano," in Port Costa slip. B3799.
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [1887]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Watkins
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 1998-0321
PHOTO: CONTRA COSTA CO.: PORT COSTA
View of the ferry, "Solano," in a slip at Port Costa, locomotive engine in view at end of ferry boat; men standing in pilot house; railroad cars on tracks next to dock; ca. 1887.
"Watkins' New Boudoir Series Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, 26 New Montgomery Street, under Palace Hotel, S. F."
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint on boudoir card : albumen ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001377339CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0560
Subject: Central Pacific Railroad Company
Railroad ferries--California--Port Costa
Loading docks--California--Port Costa
Port Costa (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Albumen prints
Place: California
Port Costa
Port Costa (Calif.)

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