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Title: [Delta Queen] (6 views)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: View 1 (2017-0477). McCurry no. 33272-M-8 -- view 2 (2017-0478). McCurry no. 33272-M-8, enlargement -- view 3 (2017-0479). Coming into dock -- view 4 (2017-0480). View of lifeboats -- view 5 (2017-0481). On river, motoboat to one side -- view 6 (2017-0482). Coming into Sacramento, Tower Bridge in background. McCurry no. 33272-M-10.
Views of the Delta Queen on Sacramento River. Passengers line various decks, gentleman with microphone (?) on top deck.
Also have negatives (4x5 in.): no. 3558a for 2017-0477, 2017-0478; no. 3558b for 2017-0479; no. 3558c for 2017-0480; no. 3558d for 2017-0481; and, no. 3558e for 2017-0482.
On June 26, 1938 the Delta Queen and the Port of Stockton steamboats raced from Sacramento to Clarksburg via Sacramento River. Delta Queen was piloted by Captain W.L. Cooley; the Port of Stockton by Capt. C. A. Malone. Started at the Tower Bridge; revival of steamboat races from the 1800's.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 6 photographs : prints ; 3 3/4 x 5 in. and 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001601112CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Delta Queen (Steamboat)--Photographs
Steamboat racing--California--Sacramento River
Steamboats--California--Sacramento River
Bridges--California--Sacramento
Lifeboats--California--Sacramento
Sacramento River (Calif.)--Photographs
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Tower Bridge (Sacramento, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sacramento River
Sacramento
Sacramento River (Calif.)
Sacramento (Calif.)
Tower Bridge (Sacramento, Calif.)

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