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Title
View of Avalon Bay looking from the north, showing a docked Ferndale steam boat, ca.1887
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
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 Avalon Bay looking from the north, showing a docked Ferndale steam boat, ca.1887. The long steam boat is docked at the end of a wharf that extends out from the crescent-shaped shore. The three-story building of the Metropole Hotel stands at the end of the wharf to the right. Smaller buildings can be seen it the left of it. Mountains surround the area.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
glass plate negatives
negatives (photographic)
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5553
USC-1-1-1-5670
USC-1-1-1-5671
USC-1-1-1-5672 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2829...-12943
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5553
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2829.jpg
Subject
Islands
Harbors
Boats and boating
Hotels
Steamboats
Los Angeles County--Catalina--Avalon Harbor
Metropole Hotel
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
Avalon
California
Los Angeles
USA
islands: Santa Catalina Island
Source
1-26- [Microfiche number]
2829; 7528; 12943 [Accession number]
CHS-2829; CHS-7528; CHS-12943 [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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