May 22, 2008 - Sale 2147

Sale 2147 - Lot 338

Price Realized: $ 108
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
(SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP LINES.) Group of over 30 pieces related to the line, including 18 photographs of ships (most vintage and in 8x10 inch format), deck plan of the "Dixie" (May 1937), brochures, schedules, and carbon typescripts of company documents relating to the fleet and its tonnage. Also includes a pre-World War I Supplies & Equipment manual. Principally 1930s-50

Additional Details

Generally referred to as the Morgan Line, the company offered "one hundred golden hours at sea," on passage from New York City to New Orleans. Some of the photos deal with the liner "Dixie" when it was stranded for three days on a reef off the Florida coast in September 1935.