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Title: On the way to Fort MacArthur
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Signal Film Corp
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917
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 people, some dressed in stylish evening attire, at the Salt Lake Railroad yards in Los Angeles prior to departing for Fort MacArthur. The fort, named in honor of Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, the father of General Douglas MacArthur, was commissioned as a U.S. Army fort in 1914. During the Great War, which was taking place at the time this image was taken, Fort MacArthur served as an army training center. Photo dated: March 24th, 1917.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00073773
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Fort MacArthur; S-001-766 4x5
CARL0000076724
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/114892
Subject: United States.--Army
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company
Railroad yards--California--Los Angeles

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