Name/Title
Program for Rowing RegattaEntry/Object ID
Archives 1897Tags
RowingScope and Content
Program for Pacific Amateur Athletic Association annual championship Rowing Regatta at El Campo on September 19, 1897.
Rectangular folded program, title on front, events and names of rowers/colors listed on two inside pages, names of officers/organizing committee/judges/rules listed on back.
Participating clubs: Alameda, Ariel, Dolphin, Pioneer, South End, Stockton.
Pencil notes on several events.Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
September 19, 1897Archive Notes
Cataloged by Morgan Kulla 8/11/21Condition
Overall Condition
FairDate Examined
August 11, 2021Acquisition
Acquisition Method
DonationNotes
Donated by Deborah McKelvie of Citrus Heights, CA; found among papers of her father's family. July 2021.Research Notes
Notes
El Campo (later renamed Paradise Beach) was a picnic resort established in 1891 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad in hopes of increasing ridership on their ferries between San Francisco and Marin. Facilities at the resort included a dance pavilion, merry-go-round, bowling alley, fishing pier, shooting gallery and over 100 acres of picnic grounds. The resort became such a popular attraction that crowds lined up on the pier in San Francisco on the weekend to catch the ferry to the resort; . the site was only accessible by ferry. (Source: Wikipedia)
El Campo is in Marin County north of Tiburon on bay side.
