Name/Title
Photos and Passenger Ticket of final ferry crossing, 1939Entry/Object ID
1997.618.1Description
Acc. No. 97.618.1 (a-c)
Subject Category: Transportation - Ferry Boats
Date or Period: 1939
Object: Photographs/Passenger Ticket
Description: A set comprising three items: #a - black/white photo, unmounted, photographer unknown.
Size: L-4 x W-5 3/4 in.;
#b - 35mm color slide from which the photograph was printed;
#c - Southern Pacific ferry and interurban train passenger ticket of red paper stock, imprinted in black ink on both sides, size: Size: L-1 1/4 x W-2 in.
History of Object: Memorabilia connected with one of the final Southern Pacific ferry crossings on San Francisco Bay, January 12, 1939. The photograph shows Alamedans Harold Cossett, Oliver Haslett and Homer R. Spence on deck.
Acquired from: Homer R. Spence (1959)
Date: 10/25/97
Pre-1971 donation, uncataloged.
