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 men standing on and around a 32-foot long shark caught by Peter Borcich in San Pedro, ca.1885. The shark's corpse is stretched out on the dusty ground while a man stands on top of it. A group of men and boys in suits stand around it, marveling. Several onlookers sit on the fence in the background. Handwriting on the image reads "Shark: 32 feet long, Weight 7 ton or 14000 lbs.".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, transparency, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) transparencies photographs
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