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One of the 14-inch caliber guns at Fort MacArthur with the parade of the navy fleet in the background, San Pedro, 1932

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Title: One of the 14-inch caliber guns at Fort MacArthur with the parade of the navy fleet in the background, San Pedro, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: April 19, 1932
1932-04-19
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.
One of the 14-inch guns at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro with the parade of the navy fleet in the background.
This photograph appears with the article, "Greatest Armada in Nation's History Passes in Review; Navy Parades Strength in Sea and Air Tableau; Hundreds of Ships and Aircraft Pass in Stately Review Before Crowds Masses on Shore." Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 1932: A1.
Text from negative sleeve: U.S. Navy, Ships, Fleet Parade at San Pedro 1932
Text from newspaper caption: View of Fleet From Fort MacArthur. Above -- Cars parked between Point Fermin and White Point, which carried part of the throng that witnessed the great naval display. Below -- View of the passing fleet from the shadow of a fourteen-inch disappearing rifle on Fort MacArthur's upper reservation.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4173
ark:/21198/zz002cpx8s
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Artillery (Weaponry) $ American--California--Los Angeles
Fort MacArthur (Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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