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Title
View of Dead Man's Island from the harbor entrance, San Pedro, ca.1912
Date Created and/or Issued
1907/1917
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 a view of Dead Man's Island from the harbor entrance, San Pedro, ca.1912. The small, rocky island is pictured at the center of the frame, surrounded by water. A ladder has been leaned up against the top rock face to the left, and the mast of a ship is visible above its peak. The Island was removed and used for landfill in the construction of Reservation Point in 1929.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2928
USC-1-1-1-3001 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7115
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2928
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7115.jpg
Subject
Islands
Seashore
Landforms
Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Los Angeles Harbor--General views--1910 to 1919
Harbors
Time Period
1907/1917
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Pedro
USA
islands: Dead Man's Island
Source
1-50-91 [Microfiche number]
7115 [Accession number]
CHS-7115 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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