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Title
View of San Pedro Harbor, showing Timm's Landing and Dead Man's Island, ca.1873
Date Created and/or Issued
1868/1878
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a view of San Pedro Harbor, showing Timm's Landing and Dead Man's Island, ca.1873. Both a picket and a post-and-rail fence descend from the hill in the right foreground, surrounding a partially visible one-story building in the harbor. Farther back into the image, a collection of craftsman-style buildings are shown, with Dead Man's Island pictured at the center of the water in the background. Picture file card reads: "Warehouse where first schoolhouse was started by Mrs. Alonzo Wheeler, 188[?]-1882." As well as "Watkins photo.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4457
USC-1-1-1-4553
USC-1-1-1-1556 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7316
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4457
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7316.jpg
Subject
Harbors
Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Los Angeles Harbor--General views--1870's
Wheeler, Alonzo, Mrs
Time Period
1868/1878
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Pedro
USA
housing areas: Timm's Landing
Source
7316 [Accession number]
CHS-7316 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
isla id: 1-18- [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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