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Civilians practice plotting target coordinates for defense battery guns at Ft. MacArthur, 1921

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Title: Civilians practice plotting target coordinates for defense battery guns at Ft. MacArthur, 1921
Date Created and/or Issued: September 29, 1921
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Likely related to Los Angeles Times article, “Civilians Fire Defense Guns: Fighting Parson Prepares for a Scrap.: Minister Among Those to Man Battery at MacArthur.: Enthusiastic Over Power to Use Death-Dealers: Fort Commander Lauds Skill of Amateur Crew.” 30 Sept. 1921: II3.
Handwritten on negative: Ft. McArthur [sic] Plotting room
Most likely men of the first civilian coast artillery gun crew, all members of the Progressive Business Club of Long Beach, plotting coordinates for an exercise in test firing the 12-inch mortar battery guns at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.
Text from negative sleeve: United States Army, Bases, Ft. MacArthur
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4019
ark:/21198/zz002cpqz7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fort MacArthur (Calif.)
Forts & Fortifications--American--California--San Pedro
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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