[U. S. Navy Receiving Station, Yerba Buena Island]

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Local identifier: AAC-9890
Title: [U. S. Navy Receiving Station, Yerba Buena Island]
Date: 1949 Apr. 5
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: United States
Navy
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Islands-Yerba Buena.
On back: "ARMED FORCES INFORMATION; Twelfth Naval District; Public Information Office. April 5, 1949. After 50 years of service and processing of countless thousands of bluejackets, the U. S. Navy Receiving Station, Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay, is closed down. Actually, functions of the station have been moved bodily to nearby Treasure Island. As the colors are hauled down before the main building, Captain Elwood M. Tillson, USN, commanding officer, and Comdr. Joseph E. O'Handley, USN, executive officer, stand at salute. ND23L-07-4-49. Official U. S. Navy Photograph".
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Yerba Buena Island (Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b10247415
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:139738