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. 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. 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. "United States Navy, Ships, Virginia" [ship is not Navy, it is a merchant ocean liner] Handwritten on negative: SS Virginia
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_4054 ark:/21198/zz002cps59
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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