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Title
Large group joins Maritime Service
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Ballew, Howard
Date Created and/or Issued
1945
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
A group of 114 volunteers for the Maritime Service, the largest contingent from Southern California, is shown before they left for Avalon, Catalina Island, where they will undergo 6 to 14 weeks of training. Photo dated: July 22, 1945.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00045557
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9443.
CARL0000049600
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15947
Subject
Merchant marine--United States
Men--California--Los Angeles
Recruiting and enlistment
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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