Hyde Street San Francisco Pier Line Art Displaying Historic Ships. Depicts a man in a captain's hat sitting happily in front of the pier, with important historical vessels including the Thayer, the Balclutha, and the Eureka moored in the background. Attached to board, with instructions on reverse how to separate the pieces. 

Condition: Water damage on verso. 

Size: 12 1/4 x16 1/4 in. 

#7431 . 

The Hyde Street Pier, at 2905 Hyde Street, is a historic ferry pier located on the northern waterfront of San Francisco, California. Prior to the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, it was the principal automobile ferry terminal connecting San Francisco with Marin County by way of Sausalito to the north, and the East Bay by way of Berkeley. It was designated part of U.S. Route 101 and U.S. Route 40. The ferries began operation by the Golden Gate Ferry Company. In early-1929 the Golden Gate Ferry Company merged with the competing auto ferry system of the Southern Pacific railroad, with ferry service to the Hyde Street Pier taken over by the new Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries, Limited. The pier is now part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, and various historical ships are moored there, with some available for self-guided or docent-led tours. Among the ships on display or in storage are the Balclutha, an 1886 square rigged sailing ship, as well as the C.A. Thayer, Eureka, Alma, Hercules, Eppleton Hall, and over one hundred smaller craft. In 2023 the Hōkūleʻa, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe, docked here as part of its Moananuiakea voyage, the circumnavigation of the Pacific Ocean, and the Pier remains an important cultural landmark in American history. 

Water damage on verso.