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Title: C.A. Larsen at Los Angeles Harbor
Alternative Title: Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Photo Collection;
Date Created and/or Issued: 1928
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of the C.A. Larsen docked at the Los Angeles Harbor at Western Oil & Refining Co. Berth 128. Commander Richard E. Byrd was utilizing the whaling ship for his first exploration of Antarctica and the South Pole, via New Zealand. A large group of onlookers have gathered to witness the departure. This image was taken the day of Byrd's departure on October 10, 1928.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00075420
Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection;
N-004-292 4x5
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/136966
Subject: C. A. Larsen (Whaling ship)
Expeditions & surveys--Antarctica--1920-1930
Ships
Men
Women
Crowds
Harbors
Flags
Water towers
Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930

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