Contains 1039 photos
Sign on enclosure around sailing ship Gjoa describing Roald Amundsen's expedition through the Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen's Gjoa was the first ship through the northwest passage in 1906. Donated to San Francisco, she was displayed at the west end of Golden Gate Park from 1909 to 1972, when she was returned to Norway.
Golden Gate Park
Coit Tower parking lot, three young women, with Embarcadero and ships in background (5 of 6)
Telegraph Hill
SS Monterey [Ocean Steamer at Docks] Unidentified pier
[Ocean Steamer coming in] Aquatic Park. Actually, view shows two bay ferryboats at Hyde Street pier
Fishermans Wharf
US Navy Destroyer (DD-339) USS Trever, docked at Pier 45? [battleships (sic) on SF Bay]
View from end of old Pier 43 ferry slip (later shortened). Freighter tied up at Pier 45, Marin Headlands in distance.
Sailing ship Balclutha tied up at Pier 43 at Fisherman's Wharf. Ornamental arch at Pier 43 railroad ferry slip at right. Pier 41 behind Balclutha.
Fishermans Wharf
3-masted sailing ship 'Balclutha' tied up at Pier 43 at Fisherman's Wharf. Pier 41 in background.
Fishermans Wharf
View from Pier 43 1/2, Red & White Cruises.; Freighter with Alcatraz and Angel Island
Side view of the steamship 'Japan' of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company at the dry dock at Hunters Point. [258. Steamship Japan in California Dry Dock, Hunter's Point, San Francisco.]
Hunters Point
Ship from Los Angeles offloading with crane goods at unidentified wharf.
Telephoto view east over Potrero Hill toward San Francisco Bay, Oakland and East Bay Hills. Oil tanker in the bay. St. Teresa of Avila Church at center at corner of 19th and Connecticut. View from approx. DeHaro and 19th Streets
Potrero Hill
View across Golden Gate to Marin Headlands; Chichibu Maru Japanese ship entering harbor
Presidio
Battleship in bay with Bay Bridge and Yerba Buena Island behind. [scrapbook page with wnp27.5713-wnp27.5719]
View east towards Marin Headlands and Point Bonita lighthouse from military (?) ship. [Collection taken together from wnp27.5747-wnp27.5767]