Photograph of 1st page of Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine story about Drum Barracks, "When Camels Carried Mail to California," by Basil Heathcote, 1930
Creator
Heathcote, Basil
Contributor
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Library. -- Dept. of Special Collections (repository)
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Description
Includes colored drawing of camels, soldiers, rocks, and joshua trees, with caption: Romance Still Clings to Old Drum Barracks, Headquarters in 1862 for Uncle Sam's Picturesque Experiment With the "Dromedary Express." "Drum Barracks" is circled in pencil. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1823 - 1824 253R1694 2 negs, 1929. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. Drum Barracks, 1862-68, offcers qtrs. U.S. Army, Wilmington (now in Los Angeles at L.A. Harbor) Calif. (see story attached) Text reads, in part: When the camel cavalcade carried the soldiers' mail and provisions to New Mexico, Arizona and California, old Drum Barracks, then Headquarters Military Base for the Armies of the Southwest, was in the first importance of its youth. Its imposing group of buildings dominated the awakening village of Wilmington ... To walk through the rooms of this old landmark today ... is to hear the echoes of Drum Barracks of 1862. ... Various were the fates of these historic buildings. The soldiers' barracks accidentally burned down. ... One fine old structure is left--the officers' quarters, now the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keaveny. ... the imposing white house stands almost as it did in the early days. ... Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Handwritten in pencil at upper right: 1823
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