[Photograph of painting of steamer El Capitan]

Description

Title: [Photograph of painting of steamer El Capitan]
Creator: Lee, Joseph, 1827-1880
Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885
Contributor: El Capitan (Steamship)--Pictorial works
Lee, Joseph,--1827-1880
San Francisco & Oakland Railroad Company
Selleck, Silas Wright,--ca. 1828-1885
Tiernan, Patrick H
Published / Created: 1860-1870.
Publication Place: San Francisco (Calif.)
Abstract: Two images depict steamships attributed to builder Patrick H. Tiernan, including the Alameda and El Capitan. The painting of the El Capitan flies a banner that reads "S.F. & O.R.R. Co.", probably the San Francisco & Oakland Railroad Company. The mounts for these photographs include printed information regarding the length of deck, breadth of beam, depth of hold, tonnage, stroke, and cylinder of each ship.
Description: Immediate source unknown.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 photographic print : b & w ; 23.2 x 42.7 cm. on mount 27.9 x 45.2 cm.

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 41
Collection Title: Photographs of paintings of steamships by Joseph Lee.
Collection/Other Creator: Selleck, Silas Wright, ca. 1828-1885
Collection Note: Photographs created by Silas Wright Selleck of San Francisco, California, documenting paintings by Joseph Lee of steamship profiles built by shipwrights in the San Francisco Bay area, ca. 1860-1870.

Format: still image
Genre: Copy prints.--aat
Photographic prints
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name): El Capitan (Steamship)--Pictorial works
Lee, Joseph,--1827-1880
San Francisco & Oakland Railroad Company
Selleck, Silas Wright,--ca. 1828-1885
Tiernan, Patrick H
Subject (Topic): Marine painting, American
Marine painting--19th century--United States

Access: Public
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Citation: Silas Wright Selleck, Photographs of Paintings of Steamships by Joseph Lee. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.