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P.M.S.S. [City of] Peking : general arrangement

Description: Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company ; [Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco)]
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1890
Call number: priJHK 00153
Creator: Kemble, John Haskell (1912-1990)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Haskell Kemble,; Gift of Elizabeth Paine.; Purchased from Vigilante Rare Books.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Arrangement as built: P.M.S.S. Peru, No. 21

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Companies: Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco) ; Pacific Mail Steamship Company

priJHK 00146

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Proposed re-arrangement of P.M.S.S. Peru : lengthened 50 ft. in way of Fire Room

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Companies: Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco) ; Pacific Mail Steamship Company

priJHK 00147

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P.M.S.S. Peru : passenger plan

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Companies: [Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco)] ; Pacific Mail Steamship Company

priJHK 00144

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Passenger Accomodations : S.S. City of Panama

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Artists: Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco) Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company ; Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco)

priJHK 00914

P.M.S.S. [City of] Peking : general arrangement

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The sheet shows a cutaway starboard profile and five decks of the vessel; the deck plans show passenger accommodations, along with the dining saloon, social hall, card room and other amenities. "P.M.S.S. Peking. General Arrangement"--title at the top of the drawing. "Scale 1/16" = 1 Foot"--scale given. "Case No. 361S Sheet No. 7159S"--lower right corner, stamped on original; numbers, in ms.; stamp and the case number are the similar to the one found on ephKMSP 006, indicating the origin of the drawing is Union Iron Works Co., San Francisco. "E2"--in lower right corner of the image. Unknown as to when the copy was made. "City of Peking"--on verso, in ms., in pencil. The City of Peking, built in 1874, was the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven steamer built for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; she was chartered in 1898 by US Government as a troopship for Spanish-American War and sailed as part of group led by USS Charleston; laid up at San Francisco in 1908, she was broken up in 1910. Focus of item: City of Peking.

priJHK 00153

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Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'s steamer "City of Para"

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Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company ; [Union Iron Works Co. (San Francisco)]

priJHK 00152

P.M.S.S. [City of] Peking : general arrangement

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