Film, Video Troops embarking at San Francisco
About this Item
- Title
- Troops embarking at San Francisco
- Summary
- This film shows troops of the First Regiment, California Volunteers, boarding the Pacific Mail steamer City of Peking to serve in the Philippine theater of the Spanish-American War. The film was shot at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company dock between 10:50am and 1:50pm on Friday, May 13, 1898. The dock was located at First Street between Brannan and Townsend streets, and is now a segment of First Street called Delancey Street in the newly-developed South Beach neighborhood. The camera is probably facing north, from the shade of the pier into bright sunshine. The film begins with flag-waving relatives in the foreground [Frame: 0108] that seem more interested in the camera than in the departing soldiers. The troops are seen climbing the gangplank with full travel kits and rifles [0787]. As the crowd watches the troops, at least one woman raises a handkerchief to her eyes [1059]. In the bright background between the ascending soldiers, troops are seen lining the ship's rails and a lifeboat is visible [1500]. On this midday, over a thousand troops boarded the City of Peking after marching across San Francisco from their bivouac at the Presidio army base. An estimated thirty thousand people watched the embarkation from the Pacific Mail dock and several nearby piers. After loading, the steamer pulled out into San Francisco Bay and re-anchored, awaiting the loading of two more steamers, the Australia and the Sydney, with the Oregon Volunteers and U.S. Army regulars. The fleet departed for the Philippines on Sunday, May 15. Built in 1874, the City of Peking was a long-serving 5,070-ton steamer of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The ship made 116 round trips between San Francisco and Hong Kong before being scrapped in 1920.
- Contributor Names
- Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
- Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
- Created / Published
- United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1898.
- Subject Headings
- - Spanish-American War, 1898--Transportation
- - United States.--Army.--Regiment, California U.S. Volunteer Infantry, 1st
- - Soldiers--Transportation--California--San Francisco
- - Transports--California--San Francisco
- - Ships--California--San Francisco
- - Piers--California--San Francisco
- - San Francisco (Calif.)--History, Military--19th century
- Genre
- War (Nonfiction)--Short
- Actualities (Motion pictures)
- Short films
- Nonfiction films
- Notes
- - 38256 U.S. Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Thomas A. Edison; 22Jun1898; 38256.
- - Duration: 0:52 at 15 fps.
- - Photographed: May 13, 1898. Location: Pacific Mail Steamship Company Dock, San Francisco.
- - Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
- - Received: 6/22/1898; paper pos; copyright deposit; Paper Print Collection.
- Medium
- 1 roll (70 ft) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
- Call Number/Physical Location
- LC 65 (paper pos)
- Repository
- Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu
- Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp003.m3a15951
- Library of Congress Control Number
- 00694413
- Online Format
- image
- video
- Description
- Shows troops of the First Regiment, California Volunteers, boarding the Pacific Mail steamer City of Peking to serve in the Philippine theater of the Spanish-American War. The film was shot at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company dock between 10:50am and 1:50pm on Friday, May 13, 1898. The dock was located at First Street between Brannan and Townsend streets. The camera is probably facing north.. The film begins with flag-waving relatives in the foreground [Frame: 0108]. The troops are seen climbing the gangplank with full travel kits and rifles [0787]. As the crowd watches the troops, at least one woman raises a handkerchief to her eyes [1059]. In the bright background between the ascending soldiers, troops are seen lining the ship's rails and a lifeboat is visible [1500]. Over a thousand troops boarded the City of Peking after marching across San Francisco from their bivouac at the Presidio army base. After loading, the steamer pulled out into San Francisco Bay and re-anchored, awaiting the loading of two more steamers, the Australia and the Sydney. The fleet departed for the Philippines on Sunday, May 15. Built in 1874, the City of Peking was a long-serving 5,070-ton steamer of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The ship made 116 round trips between San Francisco and Hong Kong before being scrapped in 1920.
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- https://lccn.loc.gov/00694413
- Additional Metadata Formats
- MARCXML Record
- MODS Record
- Dublin Core Record
Part of...
- Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897 to 1916 (34)
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures (82)
- Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies (432)
- Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (1,886)
- American Memory (641,167)
- Library of Congress Online Catalog (887,800)
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Format
Film, Video
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Contributors
Blechynden, Frederick
Niver (Kemp) Collection (Library of Congress)
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Thomas A. Edison, Inc
White, James H. (James Henry)
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Dates
1898
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Location
California
San Francisco
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Language
English
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Subjects
19th Century
Actualities (Motion Pictures)
Army
California
City of Peking (Ship)
History, Military
Nonfiction Films
Piers
Regiment, California U.S. Volunteer Infantry, 1st
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)
Ships
Short
Short Films
Silent Films
Soldiers
Spanish-American War
Transportation
Transports
United States
War (Nonfiction)
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U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquirí, Cuba; Troops Making Military Road in Front of Santiago; Pack Mules with Ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba; and 25th Infantry are reproduced here courtesy of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
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The following films are reproduced courtesy of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, P.O. Box 720, Oyster Bay, NY 11771: U.S. Troops Landing at Daiquirí, Cuba; Troops Making Military Road in Front of Santiago; Pack Mules with Ammunition on the Santiago Trail, Cuba.
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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, and Paper Print Collection. Troops embarking at San Francisco. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1898. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694413/. (Accessed January 20, 2018.)
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Thomas A. Edison, I. & Paper Print Collection. (1898) Troops embarking at San Francisco. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/00694413/.
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Thomas A. Edison, Inc, and Paper Print Collection. Troops embarking at San Francisco. United States: Thomas A. Edison, Inc, 1898. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/00694413/>.