Image / ["City of Peking" at dry dock]

View source image on contributor's website.

Get Citation

Have a question about this item?

Contact Owner

Item information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title: ["City of Peking" at dry dock]
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1876]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: 2007-0424.
View looking towards the bow of the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's "City of Peking" in dry dock at Hunter's Point in San Francisco. Shows man and two women posed in front of the bow, group of men in uniforms standing to the right, various people on the dock, buildings to the left and right of the ship. Attributed to Watkins.
Restricted original.
Negative, no. 9,528 (70 mm) b/w and (4x5 in.) color transparency.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on board :8 : albumen ; 15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in. image on mount 22 x 28 in.
Identifier: (C)001387732CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1029
Language: English
Subject: Pacific Mail Steamship Company--Photographs
Boat & ship industry--California--San Francisco
Vessels--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

About the collections in Calisphere

Learn more about the collections in Calisphere. View our statement on digital primary resources.

Copyright, permissions, and use

If you're wondering about permissions and what you can do with this item, a good starting point is the "rights information" on this page. See our terms of use for more tips.

Share your story

Has Calisphere helped you advance your research, complete a project, or find something meaningful? We'd love to hear about it; please send us a message.