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Steamers and ferries moved passengers and goods across the bay and upriver
into the delta for more than a century.
Top:
Wharf at the foot of San Francisco's
Broadway Street in 1865.
Bottom:
The
San Joaquin #3
steamboat upriver in Corn-
ing, California. Such vessels were often called “floating stores.” (GGNRA Park Ar-
chives, Martin Behrman Negative Collection)