Image / C.R. Klein of Santa Monica with a swordfish gun

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Title: C.R. Klein of Santa Monica with a swordfish gun
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1933
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of C.R. Klein of Santa Monica aiming a swordfish gun on a tripod in Santa Monica, California. The Deauville Club and the Georgian Hotel can be seen in the distance on the coast at left and the La Monica ballroom on the Santa Monica Pier can be seen at right.
Title and date devised by cataloger based on information on envelope in which negative was received: "Santa Monica, Klein & sword fish gun, 1933." A similar image of Klein was published in the Clovis, New Mexico, News-Journal, October 23, 1934, page 7, with the caption: "C.R. Klein of Santa Monica, Cal., exhibits the new weapon he invented for shooting swordfish and firing life lines to persons on boats by lifeguards. It operates on air pressure, and shoots a line 150 yards." Klein is also seen in photCL_555_06_1472.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487932
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/17565
Subject: Beaches
Collectors and collecting
Fishing
Guns
Inventions
Weapons
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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