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Title
Commercial tuna fishermen hooking a tuna, ca.1920
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1920
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 commercial tuna fishermen hooking a tuna, ca.1920. To the bottom right, the back view of two men holding fishing poles can be seen while two more fishing poles are visible to the right with the men cut out of the picture. The fishing poles seems to be united onto one line with a fish struggling to survive at the end. The mouth of the fish is wide open while a fury of water surround the large animal.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
23 x 19 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20642
USC-2-1-1-2674 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45852
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20642
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45852.jpg
Subject
Industry--Fishing
Tuna fishing
Oceans
Time Period
circa 1920
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
45852 [Accession number]
84-1-440 [Microfiche number]
CHS-45852 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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