COLLECTION NUMBER:
C112.
COLLECTION TITLE:
J.E. Slocum San Diego Bay Front Collection.
CREATOR(S):
Photographed by J.E. Slocum for the San Diego and Arizona Railway.
DATES OF MATERIAL:
1907-1908.
EXTENT:
67 photographic prints on cardboard mounts: albumen; 23 x 28 cm.
LOCAL CONTROL NUMBERS:
Photographic prints: OP1-66.
REPOSITORY:
San Diego History Center
Booth Historical Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 81825
San Diego, CA 92138
1-619-232-6203
ACQUISITION INFORMATION:
Gift of Fred Reif [?]
RESTRICTIONS:
Open for research.
COPYRIGHT:
For permission to reproduce or publish, contact the curator of the Booth Historical Photograph Archives of 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: J.E. Slocum San Diego Bay Front Collection, San Diego Historical Society, Booth Historical Photograph Archives.
GENERAL NOTES:
Arranged in chronological order. Copy negatives available for some prints (negative numbers noted on verso of prints). Forms part of the San Diego History Center Original Print Collection.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:
This collection contains mounted photographic prints of San Diego’s bay front area used for evidence in a legal proceeding. A notarized statement on the back of each print declares they were taken by San Diego photographer J.E. Slocum “at the instance of the San Diego and Arizona Railroad Company” between 1907 and 1908. Views show tidal flats, people looking for crawfish, piers, railroad tracks and shops, trolley lines and cars, lumberyards, and trash dumps. Businesses depicted include Kyle’s Plunge Tank (advertising hot and cold sea baths), Benson Lumber Company, J.S. Schirm Company (selling lime and cement), San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company, and the San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad.
SUBJECTS INDEXED:
Bays — California — San Diego.
Waterfronts — California — San Diego.
Piers & wharves — California — San Diego.
Railroads — California — San Diego.
Bathhouses — California — San Diego.
CONTENTS LIST:
Box 1 | |
Folder 1 | |
OP1 | Lumberyard between Arctic and India streets. |
OP2 | Man standing in front of Santa Fe Railroad bridge between 10th and 16th streets, Benson Lumber mill in background. |
OP3 | View of tidal flats. |
OP4 | Tidal flats. |
OP5 | Tidal flats. |
OP6 | San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company storage tower. |
OP7 | Tidal flats. |
OP8 | View of bay front area. |
OP9 | View of bay front area, Newton Avenue between 13th and 16th streets; poles in background support trolley wire over National City and Otay track. |
OP10 | Tidal flats. |
OP11 | Man “trampin [sic] crawfish” along tidal flats. |
OP12 | Tidal flats. |
OP13 | Tidal flats. |
OP14 | Trash dump, looking east from 16th Street, crematorium (left) and Benson’s Lumber mill (right) in background. |
OP15 | Bay front from the foot of 16th Street. |
OP16 | Trash dump. |
Folder 2 | |
OP17 | San Diego Gas and Electric storage tower. |
OP18 | View from San Diego and Arizona Railroad toward San Diego Gas and Electric storage tower. |
OP19 | San Diego and Arizona Railroad tracks. |
OP20 | San Diego and Arizona Railroad tracks. |
OP21 | National City and Otay’s tracks, now Newton Avenue, between 10th and 16th streets. |
OP22 | Loo king down National City and Otay’s tracks, now Newton Avenue, toward 13th Street; San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad shops on left. |
OP23 | View of bay front near San Diego Gas and Electric works, with San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad shops in background. |
OP24 | San Diego Gas and Electric storage tower. |
OP25 | National City and Otay’s tracks, with San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad shops on right. |
OP26 | National City and Otay’s tracks. |
OP27 | National City and Otay’s tracks, with San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad shops on right. |
OP28 | Bay front at the foot of 8th, looking east. |
OP29 | Bay front, pier, looking southeast from State Street. |
OP30 | Kyle’s bathhouse, pier, bay front at foot of 6th Street. |
OP31 | San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad water tank, shops, and roundhouse, looking east from 8th Street. |
OP32 | Kyle’s bathhouse. |
Folder 3 | |
OP33 | Bay front, Silver Gate flour mill. |
OP34 | Bay front. |
OP35 | Bay front view, San Diego, Cuyamaca, and Eastern Railroad shops (left) and bathhouse (right). |
OP35A | Bay front, steam train McKinley, Kyle’s bathhouse. |
OP36 | Bay front. |
OP37 | Two boys looking for crawfish to use for bait, looking east along bay front from 16th Street. |
OP38 | Pier at end of Fifth Street. |
OP39 | Santa Fe Railroad tracks, looking east from near the foot of 2nd Street toward Kyle’s bathhouse. |
OP40 | Benson lumberyard along bay front. |
OP41 | Lumberyard, looking north from Broadway. |
OP42 | Santa Fe Hotel and West Coast Lumber Company between Arctic and India streets. |
OP43 | Santa Fe Hotel, West Coast Lumber Company, and trolley. |
OP44 | West Coast Lumber Company. |
OP45 | Kyle’s bathhouse. |
OP46 | Bay front view, looking east from 7th Street. |
OP47 | Bay front view, looking east from 10th Street. |
Box 2 | |
Folder 4 | |
OP48 | Tidal flats. |
OP49 | Bay front view. |
OP50 | Tidal flats. |
OP51 | Bay front view. |
OP52 | Railroad tracks along bay front. |
OP53 | J.S. Schirm Company (selling lime and cement). |
OP54 | Santa Fe Railroad tracks looking southeast toward Benson Lumber Company. |
OP55 | Bay front at the bottom of 6th Street. |
OP56 | Bay front view, looking east from 7th Street. |
OP57 | Bay front view, pier at end of 6th Street. |
OP58 | Bay front view, pier. |
OP59 | Bay front view, pier. |
OP60 | Bay front, J.S. Schirm Company, Kyle’s bathhouse. |
OP61 | Tidal flats, pier. |
OP62 | Tidal flats, Santa Fe wharf. |
OP63 | Lumber piles on pier. |
OP64 | Tidal flats. |
OP65 | Tidal flats. |
OP66 | Tidal flats, San Diego Bay, ships. |