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  African American History

  The high seas offered opportunity and hardship for African Americans in San Francisco.

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  Women's History

  Women in the age of sail

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  Asian American History

  Asian American history in San Francisco's maritime world

 

Inda Frances Durkee as a baby (SAFR P00.08000)

NPS photo

Inda Frances Durkee was born aboard ship to Captain Durkee and his wife Alice, during Balclutha's last voyage

 

Hicks engine.

NPS Photo SAFR 17336 HDC 1092

James Lee Hicks: Modified and refined the single cylinder, four-stroke gasoline engine

 

NPS Photo

Mary Tornich Janislawski: Navigator

 

Sargent Claude Johnson

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Sargent Claude Johnson: Created artwork for the Aquatic Park Bathhouse Building (Maritime Museum)

 

Pete and Hilda Nelson.

NPS Photo

"Whitehead Pete" and Hilda Nelson: Nelson owned the C.A.Thayer 1912-1925

 

An oil painting of NIANTIC in port at Ningpo, China.

NPS Photo SAFR 22386

George S. Payne: Sailor, Solider, Journalist: He sailed on the first four voyages of the Niantic.