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.
CAPTAIN GETS HIS RUM-LADEN SHIP THEN LOSES IT
April 22, 1927
Captain Stuart S. Stone, giving a cheer as he gets aboard his rum-laden steamer Federalship, just after he and nineteen members of the crew were released from jail in San Francisco where Federal Judge George S. Bourquin denounced the seizure of the vessel 300 miles off the Golden Gate as comparable to the causes that led up to the war of 1812. He no more than got aboard when the Coast Guard chased him off, saying they had no orders from Washington to let him board the boat with its million dollar cargo of 12,500 cases of choice liquor. The controversy is to be settled by Washington diplomats as the Federalship carried the Panaman flag and its crew are mostly British.
[P685 STONE, S-Z]
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| 1. Captain S.S. Stone; 2. U.S. Marshall Fred Esola; 3. U.S. Atty. Geo. Hatfield |
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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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