In this Year of the Bay, San Francisco is all about what happens in and on its surrounding waters. From the 150th anniversary of the Port to the arrival of the America's Cup races this summer, this exhibit celebrates all things aquatic in San Francisco history: its vibrant shipping and fishing industries, its recreational swimming and boating clubs, and other aspects of local life as defined by the City's relationship to its watery location.
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The San Francisco Public Library owns the photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, a daily newspaper that covered the time period from the 1920s to 1965. Much of the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection comes from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue. However, the morgue also includes statewide, national, and international subjects and people that have not been digitized or cataloged. When researchers order scans from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue,selections are cataloged and added to the online database.
Looking for a historical photograph of San Francisco? Try our online database first. Not there? Come visit us at the Photo Desk of the San Francisco History Center, located on the sixth floor at the Main Library. The Photo Desk hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. You may also request photographs from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue.
August 11, 1934
On the floor of San Francisco Bay, not far off-shore from the south-eastern end of the city of San Francisco, are the largest shrimp beds in the state of California. The catching of these diminutive, long-tailed, lobster-like crustaceans is an occupation entirely dominated by a group of about fifty San Francisco Chinese, who maintain eleven camps along the shoreline at Hunter's Point.
Last year these industrious Celestials, working on a community basis, marketed more than a million and a half pounds of shrimps, which represented an industry in excess of $80,000 in value.
A Chinese shrimp camp during the busy summer season is an active place. The boats, manned by several Chinamen, fish three tides, so one haul is generally at night. The nets used are imported from China, and the finest are made from hemp. They are 40-feet long and cone-shaped. Ancient Chinese junks, and more modern gasoline-powered junks and trawlers are used to reach the shrimp beds. From four to five hours are required for the catch, and with the turn of the tide, the nets are lifted, heavily laden.
The shrimps are boiled, and put out to dry for several days, they are turned over at intervals. Above fishermen are cooking the day's catch. [PS 26 FISH(2)]
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The San Francisco Public Library owns the photo morgue of the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, a daily newspaper that covered the time period from the 1920s to 1965. Much of the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection comes from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue. However, the morgue also includes statewide, national, and international subjects and people that have not been digitized or cataloged. When researchers order scans from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue,selections are cataloged and added to the online database.
Looking for a historical photograph of San Francisco? Try our online database first. Not there? Come visit us at the Photo Desk of the San Francisco History Center, located on the sixth floor at the Main Library. The Photo Desk hours are Tuesdays and Thursdays 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. You may also request photographs from the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Photo Morgue.
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