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Title: [E.M. Backus and fish]
Creator: Ironmonger, Charles
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: 1903
Publication Information: Avalon, Cal. : Ironmonger
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1991-0806
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: CATALINA ISLAND: AVALON
View of two men standing on each side of an enormous fish. Man on right (identified as E.M. Backus) has mustache, wears three-piece suit with watch chain in pocket, derby hat; holds fishing pole with reel; man on left (identified as Claude Wickman) wears suspenders, shirt, cap; holds gaffing hook. Handwritten on photograph: Wt. 157 lbs. Time 20 min. At Catalina, Sept. 19th, 1903. Newspaper caption identifying E.M Backus and Claude Wickman in lower frame. Santa Catalina Island; 1903.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on 11 x 9 in. board ; 8 x 6 in.
Identifier: (C)001384139CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-7409
Subject: Backus, E. M
Wickman, Claude
Fishing--California, Southern
Men--Clothing & dress--California--Avalon
Avalon (Calif.)--Photographs
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: California, Southern
California
Avalon
Avalon (Calif.)
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)

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