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 a lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895. Just past the building in the extreme foreground which is obscured by trees is a large quantity of stacked processed lumber (planks and beams). Just beyond this in the harbor is a long ship with four flag-topped masts beyond which several much smaller boats and the mouth of the breakwater between Terminal Island and the harbor can be seen. Dead Man's island has not yet been removed. It is visible on the left side of the mouth. A dredge is active in the channel. Tripling its population between 1900 and 1910 causing the real estate and construction industries to boom, Los Angeles began importing large quantities of lumber from the Pacific Northwest.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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