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 the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro Harbor and Terminal Railroad Depot, around 1905. The view is from the dock southwest to the mouth of the breakwater. Deadman's Island has not yet been removed, it is visible on the left side of the mouth. The ships which appear include both steam and sailing vessels. A railroad runs in the foreground, to the docks on which lumber has been unloaded. Another railroad appears in the background, on the other side of the channel. As Los Angeles tripled its population between 1900 and 1910, causing the real estate and contruction industries to boom, large quantities of lumber were imported from the Pacific Northwest.
Type
image
Format
2 photoprints : b&w 5 x 7 in., 8 x 10 in. 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w 13 x 20 cm. glass plate negatives photographs
Harbors Ships Shipping Freight and freightage Lumber Railroads Wharves Docks Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Los Angeles Harbor--General Transportation--Railroads Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--General views
Time Period
circa 1888/1891 circa 1905/1910
Place
California Los Angeles USA Wilmington San Pedro
Source
1-50-2 [Microfiche number] 296 [Accession number] CHS-296 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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