Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
"Canadian Pacific"--printed at the top in bold script, red on the grey background. "Norman Wilkinson"--artist's signature reproduced in the lower left corner of the image. "Empress of Scotland, 26,000 gross tons"--printed below the image to the right, block type in white on grey background. "Printed in Great Britain by Nissen & Arnold Ltd., 11-12 Bury street, London, E.C.3"--small type, lower right corner, along the margin. "1951"--on verso, in ms., in pencil, lower right corner. The Empress of Scotland was the second Candian Pacific vessel with this name; originally she was named the Empress of Japan, but was renamed Empress of Scotland in 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor; returned to CP in 1948 and refurbished; sold by CP to Hamburg-Atlantic Line in 1958 and renamed Hanseatic. Focus of item: Empress of Scotland.
priJHK 00022
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Artists: Beck, S.E. Publishers: Waterlow & Sons Limited Companies: Canadian Pacific
priJHK 00023
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"Scale 12' to 1""--in ms., in pencil, along lower right edge. "$250--"--in ms., in pencil, lower right corner. "TM662"--on verso, in ms., in pencil. "21x31 1/2"--on verso, in ms. in pencil, right corner. The Sonora, launched 1 October 1853, was operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company from 1854 to 1868; she was dismantled and broken up in Sausalito. Focus of item: Sonora.
priJHK 00478
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"153.--"--lower corner, in ms. in pencil. The print shows the first San Francisco, built in 1853 by William H. Webb, and lost on her maiden voyage from New York to San Francisco after foundering on 23 December 1853 in the Atlantic; she was finally abandoned on 4 January 1853. Focus of item: San Francisco.
priJHK 00469
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The sheet shows the profile and two decks of the steamship Starbuck; the plans for the decks show passenger accommodations, along with the dining saloon and other amenities. Hand drawn on vellum. "Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s Steamer Starbuck"--title at top of sheet. No scale given. "Case No. 406s Sheet No. 5442s"--purple stamp, lower right corner, numbers in ms., in ink; stamp and the case number are the same as the one found on ephKMSP 006, indicating the origin of the drawing is Union Iron Works Co., San Francisco. The Starbuck was purchased in 1886 from William H. Starbuck of New York who had salvaged, renamed, and reflagged the vessel in 1885 after she had gone ashore at Moriches, Long Island; Pacific Mail overhauled her engine and hull in 1891; she was lost, without causalities, on February 28, 1899, after striking an uncharted rock off coast of Nicaragua. Focus of item: Starbuck.
priJHK 00150
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"LP563"--on verso, lower left corner, in ms., in pink pencil. "C.Rmekkr $50-"--on verso, lower right corner, in ms., in pencil. Focus of item: Great Republic.
priJHK 00332