GUIDE TO THE SAN DIEGO HARBOR COLLECTION
COLLECTION NUMBER:
C101.
NAME OF COLLECTION:
San Diego Harbor Collection.
LOCAL CONTROL NUMBER(S):
Negatives: 84:15264/A-72.
DATES OF MATERIAL:
1938.
EXTENT:
73 negatives: safety film; 4 x 5 in.
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Unknown.
REPOSITORY:
San Diego Historical Society
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203
ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Unknown.
RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.
COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives at the San Diego Historical Society. Reproduction or publication of any part of this collection must include the following information next to the image(s) or in a special section of credits: San Diego Harbor Collection, San Diego Historical Society, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.
GENERAL NOTES:
Forms part of San Diego Historical Society Negative Collection.
ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT:
Arrangement: numerical.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTES:
Documents activity in San Diego Harbor during 1938. Includes general views of docked freighters, heavy cranes in operation, piles of scrap metal and coal, loads of bananas and other produce, men on top of a fire truck extension ladder, and people on Broadway Pier. Ships pictured include: Wallingford , Portland , Pacific Pioneer , W.R. Chamberlin Jr. , Samoa , Buenos Aires , Lewis Luckenbach , Sagoland , Hawaiian , the U.S. submarine Nautilus , and an unidentified ship flying a German flag with the Nazi swastika emblem.
SUBJECTS INDEXED:
Harbors – California – San Diego.
Piers & wharves – California – San Diego.
Cargo ships.
CONTENTS LIST:
84:15264/A
Freighter Wallingford in San Diego Harbor, painters on scaffold, San Diego Civic Center (i. e. San Diego County Administration Building) in background84:15264/1
Freighter Wallingford84:15264/2
San Francisco freighter Portland under way in San Diego Bay84:15264/3
Freighter Pacific Pioneer loading cargo84:15264/4
Freighter Pacific Pioneer84:15264/5
San Francisco freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. , moored to pier piled with cargo, Civic Center in background84:15264/6
San Francisco freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. moored to pier84:15264/7
San Francisco freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. moored to pier84:15264/8
Freighter Samoa moored to pier84:15264/9
Freighter Samoa moored to pier84:15264/10
Freighter Samoa moored to pier84:15264/11
Freighter Schwaben moored to pier84:15264/12
Docked freighter Buenos Aires loading cargo84:15264/13
Docked freighter Lewis Luckenbach84:15264/14
Stern of Manila freighter Sagoland (moored to pier) showing flags of both U.S. and Philippines, freighters Samoa and Anna Schafer in background84:15264/15
Docked Manila freighter Sagoland84:15264/16
Manila freighter Sagoland , SD&AE freight cars lined up on pier84:15264/17
Manila freighter Sagoland , coal cars lined up on pier84:15264/18
Manila freighter Sagoland84:15264/19
Manila freighter Sagoland , coal cars lined up on pier84:15264/20
Manila freighter Sagoland84:15264/21
Stern of Manila freighter Sagoland (moored to pier), man moving coal car84:15264/22
Stern of Oslo freighter Segundo showing flag of Norway, freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. in background84:15264/23
View of harbor, looking northeast, Civic Center (right) and city in background84:15264/24
View of harbor with launch Fortuna in foreground, unidentified U.S. Navy warship (right), and U.S. submarine Nautilus (left)84:15264/25
Crowd of people on Broadway Pier84:15264/26
Crowd of people on Broadway Pier84:15264/27
Men on top of fire truck extension ladder next to Star and Crescent Oil Co.84:15264/28
Men on top of fire truck extension ladder84:15264/29
Men on top of fire truck extension ladder84:15264/30
Men on top of fire truck extension ladder84:15264/31
Harbor Department crane in operation84:15264/32
Freighters docked along pier84:15264/33
Freighter docked along pier, cranes in operation84:15264/34
Cranes in operation84:15264/35
Crane in operation84:15264/36
Docked freighter unloading cargo84:15264/37
Crane hoisting heavy equipment84:15264/38
Crane hoisting heavy equipment84:15264/39
Crane hoisting heavy equipment84:15264/40
Crane hoisting heavy equipment84:15264/41
Warehouse scene showing produce84:15264/42
Unloading bananas84:15264/43
Unloading tuna84:15264/44
Unloading tuna84:15264/45
Unloading bananas84:15264/46
Freighter crane lifting load of Riverside, Calif., citrus fruit84:15264/47
Freighter crane lifting load of Treasure Chest citrus fruit84:15264/48
Harbor scene showing crane in operation, scrap metal pile, Civic Center in background84:15264/49
Freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/50
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/51
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/52
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/53
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/54
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/55
Freighter loading coal84:15264/56
Freighter loading coal84:15264/57
Freighter loading coal84:15264/58
Freighter loading coal84:15264/59
Crane loading pipe on to truck, freighter [ West Nilus ?]84:15264/60
Crane in operation, freighter West Nilus84:15264/61
Cranes in operation84:15264/62
Crane in operation, freighter West Nilus84:15264/63
Docked freighter, crane lifting Wright Cyclone Aviation Engine crate84:15264/64
Crane hoisting Caterpillar dirt mover84:15264/65
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal84:15264/66
Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk84:15264/67
Crane hoisting General Cable spool84:15264/68
Docked freighter Hawaiian , crane, General Cable spool on flat bed railroad car84:15264/69
Docked freighter Hawaiian , crane, General Cable spool on flat bed railroad car84:15264/70
Docked freighter Hawaiian , crane, General Cable spool on flat bed railroad car84:15264/71
Three ships: Maine moored to pier (right), bow of Washingtonian (center), and stern of unidentified ship flying flag of Germany with Nazi swastika emblem (left)84:15264/72
Freighter Maine moored to pier (right) and stern of unidentified ship flying flag of Germany with Nazi swastika emblem (left)
