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Title
Unmanned sailboat being approached by a gunboat, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of an unmanned sailboat being approached by a gunboat, ca.1940. At center, the empty sailboat, marked "6/37", tilts slightly toward the left on an unknown body of water. The approaching small steel watercraft, marked CG-261 has one man standing behind a gun at the bow while another stands beneath a mast adorned with two flags, one dark in color and the other white, bearing a "5". In the leftmost foreground sit two men in a sailboat marked "6/34". In the distance is another sailboat with its mast facing the horizon.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m11652
USC-2-1-1-11803 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-42871
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11652
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-42871.jpg
Subject
Boats and boating
Sailboats
Sailing
Recreation--Sailing
Oceans
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
USA
Source
42871 [Accession number]
84-1-1168 [Microfiche number]
CHS-42871 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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