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Title: Avalon Base dedication
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Officers and student seamen of the U.S. Maritime Service are shown as the flag is raised during the dedication services at the new base at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. This is the location of the nation's second largest school for training crews to man America's rapidly growing numbers of merchant marine vessels. Photo dated December 16, 1946.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063982
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8285.
CARL0000069458
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27203
Subject: United States Maritime Service
Merchant marine--United States
Merchant mariners--California--Santa Catalina Island
Avalon (Calif.)
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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