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Title: Captain William T. Shorey [picture]
Contributor: Towns, Royal Edward, 1899-1990
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905?
Publication Information: Oakland Public Library
Contributing Institution: Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Center
Collection: Selections from the Collections of the Oakland History Center
Rights Information: Public domain
Material is in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Title from item. From the Royal E. Towns collection at the Oakland History Room, Oakland Public Library. William T. Shorey of Oakland was active in the whaling industry from 1875 to 1908 and became the first African-American sea captain on the West Coast, obtaining his certification in 1885. Negative number in Oakland History Room's collection : T-15.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0t1nc8jz
copl_083
Neg. T-15
Language: English
Subject: African Americans - California - Oakland - Portraits
Whaling - California - Oakland - Pictorial works
Shorey, William T., 1859-1919 - Portraits

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