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Title: Tale of a great, great white
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
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: Photograph caption dated September 20, 1985 reads, "Captain and crew of the 42-foot fishing vessel 'Diamond Jim' brought up in their drip gill net this 4,200-lb., 18-foot great white female shark. The large fish was captured near the west end of Catalina Island, 15 miles south-west of Point Vicente." Photograph taken at Los Angeles Fish & Oyster Co., located at 2212 Signal Place in San Pedro.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084430
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b026_f3_i10
CARL0002888769
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26088
Subject: Los Angeles Fish & Oyster Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sharks
White shark
Shark fishing
Fishers
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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