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. View of the Panama-Pacific luxury electric liner Virginia in Los Angeles Harbor Possibly related to the article, “Latest Word in Ocean Travel Docks With Notables: Electric Liner Arrives: Maiden Voyage of Virginia Opens New Chapter in America’s Merchant Marine,” Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 1928: B2. In 1928 the SS Virginia was the largest merchant ship ever built in America at 613 feet long with a beam of 80 feet, and was powered with a turbo-electric installation. She was refitted and renamed as SS Brazil in 1938 Handwritten on negative: SS Virginia Pd a [or 9] Text from negative sleeve: United States Navy, Ships, Virginia [note: ship is merchant ship, not Navy]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4053 ark:/21198/zz002cps4s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Ocean liners--American--California--Los Angeles Virginia (Ocean liner)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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