Name/Title
Winn Joseph Bagley memoirs, clippings, writingsEntry/Object ID
A00273.011Scope and Content
Winn Joseph Bagley memoirs, clippings, writings
1. clipping "Old ferryboat crosses the years to boyhood" 1991 article from The San Diego Union about Winn Bagley
2. photocopy of photo of Winn Bagley with Alaska king crabs in Cook Inlet, Alaska in 1968 with handwritten caption on back
3. Handwritten biographical notes about Winn Joseoph Bagley
4. Photocopy of article "Tales of teh Waterfront: 300 Tons of Dynamite" by Winn J. Bagley about one of his former employers and the San Francisco earthquake on April 17, 1906
5. Chapters from Winn Joseph Bagley's manuscript for "Tales of the Waterfront" including:
"Casual Mishaps: Lilliebonne" which describes the sinking of the LILLIEBONNE in San Francisco, CA, August 29, 1912 (3 typed pages and title page)
"Of Characters and Friends: Tommy Tucker" about a tom cat who lived on the pier and rode on barges (11 pages + title)
"Casual Mishaps: Hell, Columbia: A Tragic Event" A story of the explosion on a Stern Paddle Wheel steamer, the COLUMBIA as told to Bagley as a young boy by an "old time seaman" friend of his family who worked in Alaska and the Klondike during the gold rush era beginning in 1898. (10 pages)
"Maritime Histories: The Dog-Hole Fleet" memoirs and research about the Dog-Hole schooners, logging industry in Pacific Northwest to Alaska and Steam Schooners or Lumber Schooners 1850s-early 1900s (29 pages)
"Maritime Histories: The COMANCHE, A Monitor" history of and memoirs about Civil War era ship COMANCHE (7 pages)
"Sea Stories and Other Tales: The Savage Engineers" describes story told by Captain Knorr Caranza who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean through the Panama Canal. Describes navigation, arrival on the coast of Venuzuela, being helped by La Guajira Indians, and the design and construction of their wave powered dugout canoes. Includes photocopy of diagram by Bagley (19 pages)Collection
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Date(s) of Creation
1906 - 2000