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Title: Construction of dry dock, Mare Island
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1872 and 1882]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Mare Island photograph album, pg. [17].
1991-1182.
Shows laying of granite blocks, hoists, railroad tracks, donkey engine, buildings; Vallejo in background.
Also have negative: no. 23,867.
Drydock no. 1 was started in 1878, last stone laid in 1891. Constructed of granite blocks quarried at Rocklin, Penryn, and Loomis in Placer Co.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; oval image 13 x 16 in.
Identifier: (C)001628988CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mare Island Naval Shipyard--Photographs
Dry docks--California--Mare Island--Photographs
Naval shipyards & naval stations--California--Mare Island
Boat & ship industry--California--Mare Island
Steam donkeys--California--Mare Island
Construction workers--California--Mare Island
Hoisting machinery
Mare Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Mare Island
Mare Island (Calif.)

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