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 America's Great White Fleet passing the San Pedro breakwater to enter Los Angeles Harbor, Los Angeles, ca.1908. Beach houses are visible scattered along the side of a winding road lined by utility poles, while the United States Atlantic Battle Fleet, nicknamed the Great White Fleet, steams across the harbor in formation. The breakwater is visible to the right, in front of some wooden steps built as a way to climb the dunes. The fleet, which debuted on the world stage during the Spanish-American War was one of the markings of President Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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