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Title
Blast from an underwater charge during the construction of the San Pedro Breakwater, Los Angeles, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
1895/1905
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 the blast from an underwater charge during the construction of the San Pedro Breakwater, Los Angeles, ca.1900. Water sprays into the air, obscuring most of the construction crane that stands at the center of the shown portion of the uncompleted breakwater. The silhouettes of workers can be seen on either side of the explosion with tools in their hands, attending to the construction.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m17844
USC-1-1-1-14364 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-6730
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17844
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-6730.jpg
Subject
Breakwaters--Design and construction
Harbors
Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Engineering--Breakwater
Breakwaters
Time Period
1895/1905
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Pedro
USA
Source
1-50-86 [Microfiche number]
6730 [Accession number]
CHS-6730 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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