Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: A. W. Von Schmidt's improved dredging machine, Oakland Harbor Works, California

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Group Creator Name: 
- Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Title: 
A. W. Von Schmidt's improved dredging machine, Oakland Harbor Works, California
Date: 
[1884]
Materials: 
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions: 
48.2 x 61.3 cm.
Current Location: 
Bancroft Library.
Address: 
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID: 
BANC PIC 1963.002:0828--C
Subject: 
- Bays - California, Northern - Environmental degradation - Equipment - San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) - Vessels - Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes: 
Barge with dredging equipment in bay; pipe extending to landfill in distance; blue clay mud flats being dredged in foreground; reclaimed land and city in distance.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes: 
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): Now working under contract with Colonel George H. Mendell, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A./May, 1884; (LL): Lith. Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco]. Handwritten (on verso): This was the type of dredge used for filling in Cambridge Flats. Printed legend.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/tf1c6006tq