GUIDE TO THE J.E. SLOCUM SAN DIEGO BAY FRONT COLLECTION

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.