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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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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.
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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.
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Port view under steam at sea, headlands and fortifications in the background, to the left. The image is of the first Tennessee operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; built in 1849, she was purchased in October, 1849, from the Savannah Steam Navigation Company; from 1850 to 1853, she operated between San Francisco and Panama; she was wrecked on 6 March 1853, at Bolinas Bay, four miles north of the entrance to San Francisco Bay. Focus of item: Tennessee.
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Artists: Menger, L. R. Printers: Endicott & Co. Publishers: L.R. Menger Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Image seems blurry, out of focus. People on top deck. "2998 Keystone" and "C5754" on verso. Focus of item: Constitution (Steamship).
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