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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of Rear Admiral Robley Evans' torpedo flotilla entering San Pedro Harbor, ca.1908. Four large destroyers are moving in a column from the distance at right to the foreground at left. They are all steamships with several smokestacks and large masts with flags. Several smaller boats are lined up on either side of the formation of military vessels. A long breakwater and Dead Man's Island are visible in the background. The Torpedo Flotilla was composed of several destroyers and accompanied the Great White Fleet from Hampton Roads to San Francisco.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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