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 History Center
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 History Center, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.

GENERAL NOTES:
Forms part of San Diego History Center 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 background

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Freighter Wallingford

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San Francisco freighter Portland under way in San Diego Bay

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Freighter Pacific Pioneer loading cargo

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Freighter Pacific Pioneer

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San Francisco freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. , moored to pier piled with cargo, Civic Center in background

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San Francisco freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. moored to pier

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San Francisco freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. moored to pier

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Freighter Samoa moored to pier

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Freighter Samoa moored to pier

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Freighter Samoa moored to pier

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Freighter Schwaben moored to pier

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Docked freighter Buenos Aires loading cargo

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Docked freighter Lewis Luckenbach

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Stern of Manila freighter Sagoland (moored to pier) showing flags of both U.S. and Philippines, freighters Samoa and Anna Schafer in background

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Docked Manila freighter Sagoland

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Manila freighter Sagoland , SD&AE freight cars lined up on pier

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Manila freighter Sagoland , coal cars lined up on pier

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Manila freighter Sagoland

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Manila freighter Sagoland , coal cars lined up on pier

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Manila freighter Sagoland

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Stern of Manila freighter Sagoland (moored to pier), man moving coal car

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Stern of Oslo freighter Segundo showing flag of Norway, freighter W.R. Chamberlin Jr. in background

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View of harbor, looking northeast, Civic Center (right) and city in background

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View of harbor with launch Fortuna in foreground, unidentified U.S. Navy warship (right), and U.S. submarine Nautilus (left)

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Crowd of people on Broadway Pier

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Crowd of people on Broadway Pier

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Men on top of fire truck extension ladder next to Star and Crescent Oil Co.

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Men on top of fire truck extension ladder

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Men on top of fire truck extension ladder

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Men on top of fire truck extension ladder

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Harbor Department crane in operation

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Freighters docked along pier

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Freighter docked along pier, cranes in operation

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Cranes in operation

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Crane in operation

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Docked freighter unloading cargo

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Crane hoisting heavy equipment

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Crane hoisting heavy equipment

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Crane hoisting heavy equipment

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Crane hoisting heavy equipment

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Warehouse scene showing produce

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Unloading bananas

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Unloading tuna

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Unloading tuna

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Unloading bananas

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Freighter crane lifting load of Riverside, Calif., citrus fruit

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Freighter crane lifting load of Treasure Chest citrus fruit

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Harbor scene showing crane in operation, scrap metal pile, Civic Center in background

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Freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Freighter loading coal

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Freighter loading coal

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Freighter loading coal

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Freighter loading coal

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Crane loading pipe on to truck, freighter [ West Nilus ?]

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Crane in operation, freighter West Nilus

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Cranes in operation

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Crane in operation, freighter West Nilus

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Docked freighter, crane lifting Wright Cyclone Aviation Engine crate

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Crane hoisting Caterpillar dirt mover

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk loading scrap metal

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Coastline freighter Nicolene Mærsk

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Crane hoisting General Cable spool

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Docked freighter Hawaiian , crane, General Cable spool on flat bed railroad car

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Docked freighter Hawaiian , crane, General Cable spool on flat bed railroad car

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Docked freighter Hawaiian , crane, General Cable spool on flat bed railroad car

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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)

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Freighter Maine moored to pier (right) and stern of unidentified ship flying flag of Germany with Nazi swastika emblem (left)