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Captain Hamma watches as two young girls admire a model ship, San Pedro (Los Angeles), 1930

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Title: Captain Hamma watches as two young girls admire a model ship, San Pedro (Los Angeles), 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa October 19, 1930]
1930-10-19
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.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Toy Completed in Spare Moments," Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct 1930: A2.
Standing on the deck of a ship dressed in his uniform Captain Hamma watches as two young girls admire the model ship.
Captain Hamma has created a 36 inch scale model complete with a cabin teak, deck of miniature white cedar planking, sails, and a rudder responding to the wheel.
Text from negative sleeve: FURLONG, WILLIAM R. CAPT. NAVY
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_4781
ark:/21198/zz002ctpg9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Children--California--Los Angeles
Decks (Ships)
Ship captains--American--California--Los Angeles
Blackmore, Mary Jane
Hamma, F.I., (Captain)
Easterday, Helen
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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