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Photo Id# AAB-8939
Title U.S. NAVAL DRYDOCKS, HUNTERS POINT; FROM THE AIR - 11 MARCH 1942 [graphic].
Date 1942 Mar. 11.
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Districts-Hunters Point-Shipyards-Aerial Views.
Reproduction Rights RESTRICTIONS MAY APPLY. U. S. Navy photograph.
Notes Printed on back: "BEGINNING OF HUNTERS POINT YARD'S GROWTH--Three months after Pearl harbor the narrow tongue of land projecting into San Francisco bay looked like this, with only one permanent building (at right) and two drydocks in existence. The high promontory, Point avisadero (left), was pulled down into the bay to make San Francisco naval Shipyard the huge installation it is today (Saturday, 18 December) on its seventh birthday. (Official Navy Photos)".
Copy Negative Negative #6039.
Subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
Aerial views.
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
Hunters Point (San Francisco, Calif.)
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source San Francisco Call Bulletin.
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin.