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Title
Anaheim Landing [graphic]
Alternative Title
Digital Anaheim
Creator
Hardesty & Armstrong, Photographers, Los Angeles, California 1891
Contributor
Hardesty & Armstrong, Photographers, Los Angeles, California 1891
Date Created and/or Issued
1891 (issued)
Contributing Institution
Anaheim Public Library
Collection
Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history
Rights Information
Property rights reside with the Anaheim Public Library. Literary rights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Local History Curator.
Description
Accession number: P5470
Photographs donated by Mrs. Lera Dwyer.
Anaheim Landing, located at the NE corner of Seal Beach Blvd. and Electric Ave, in what is now known as Seal Beach (incorporated 1915); in 1857, the Anaheim Lighter Company (Frederick Schneider, president) established Anaheim Landing as a port for the Santa Ana Valley; despite treacherous entrance conditions that caused several disasters, regular coastwise trade was carried on here for about 15 years; image shows view of small house at the landing with two men standing, one holding reins of horse hitched to a buggy, and two women sitting on front porch of house; folding chairs and bird cage visible on porch; horse-drawn buggy visible at right; handwritten white text across bottom of photograph reads "ANAHEIM LANDING 1891"; photographer's credit printed in brown ink across bottom of mount board, "Hardesty & Armstrong, Photographers, Los Angeles, Cal., 1891."
Type
image
Format
2 Photographic prints mounted on 8 x 10 in. boards : sepia ; 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Form/Genre
Photographic print
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt029015bh
Subject
Horse-drawn vehicles
Housing
Portraits, Group
Place
Anaheim Landing
California
Seal Beach.
Anaheim Bay

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