Observations of San Francisco Bay from 1900 to 1971
Subtitle: and related material
By: Ernest William Winther; tape recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1970. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1972 :
Contributors: Teiser, Ruth.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1970
Subjects: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.; Treasure Island, San Francisco.; Lighthouses -- California.; Ferries -- California.; Pollution -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Point Bonita (Calif.); Farallon Islands (Calif.); San Francisco Bay (Calif.)
Description: Comments on boyhood at lighthouse stations at Point Bonita, Farallones, and Southhampton Shoals; ferries and excursion boats; hydro-survey work with the Army Engineers in the San Francisco Bay and other California harbors; changes in the Bay and its surroundings; building Treasure Island; pollution, etc. Photographs inserted.
Table of contents: value: Reel 1: Interview #1, Jan. 20, 1970, track 1: 1038 ft., track 2: 1028 ft.; value: Reel 2: Interview #2, Jan. 30, 1970, track 1: 1027 ft., track 2: 1089 ft.; value: Reel 3: Interview #2, cont., track 1: 1-349 ft. Interview #3, Feb. 6, 1970, track 1: 350-1036 ft., track 2: blank.; value: Reel 4: Interview #3, cont. track 1: 1094 ft., track 2: 1092 ft.; value: Reel 5: Addenda, Nov. 19, 1971, track 1: 899 ft., track 2: blank. Interview notes also available.; value: Phonotapes :