Name/Title
Watercolor painting of Anderson's Wharf, by E.J. Fisher, 1893Entry/Object ID
2012.42.1Description
Acc. No. 12.42.1
Subject Category: Views
Date or Period: 1893
Object: Watercolor, framed
Description: Watercolor painting on paper with off-white colored matting in its original redwood frame. The subject is a scene.
Size: L-23 1/2” x W-29 1/2”
History of Object: An original watercolor of Anderson's Wharf on Alameda's main island, which was located on San Leandro Channel near the present Bay Farm Island Bridge. The scene is a storage building on a wharf known as Anderson's Wharf where scows were docked and loaded with produce from Bay Farm Island and then were brought to the produce markets in San Francisco. In the distance can be seen the locomotive and cars of the South Pacific Coast Railroad which traveled on a trestle over San Leandro Channel. The watercolor is signed: E. J. Fisher, 1893. Biographical information from Edam M. Hughes' book, “Artists in California” (1786-1940) states that Emil J. Fisher (1856-1915), artist, was born in Austria on September 13, 1856 and settled in Alameda in 1885 and died there on May 11, 1915.
Acquired from: Museum acquisition fund
Date: 07/05/12Interpretative Labels
Label
11/29/2020 MvL: current sign:
ANDERSON WHARF
Two water color sketches depicting the Anderson Wharf where produce was gathered for distribution to San
Francisco markets. It was located near the Bay Farm Island bridge. In the upper sketch note the train on a
trestle crossing San Leandro Bay. "South Pacific Coast Railroad" can
can be noted in the background.
