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Point Vicente Lighthouse first assistant keeper Thomas A. Atkinson polishing light, Rancho Palos Verdes, 1935

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Title: Point Vicente Lighthouse first assistant keeper Thomas A. Atkinson polishing light, Rancho Palos Verdes, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
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
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article “San Vicente Lighthouse Again Awarded Honors,” Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 1935
Thomas A. Atkinson, in collared shirt and cap, seated among large Fresnel lenses polishing light with cloth
Handwritten at edge of negative: T.A. Atkinson, San Vicente Light House
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, San Vicente Lighthouse
Text from newspaper caption: Most Efficient Lighthouse on California Coast Prevents Wrecks on Reefs. This is what the inside of the huge light at San Vicente looks like. First Assistant Keeper T.A. Atkinson is polishing the small globe, which greatly magnified flashes beams for twenty miles.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_0814
0814
ark:/21198/zz002db562
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fresnel lenses--California--Rancho Palos Verdes
Lighthouses--California--Rancho Palos Verdes
Atkinson, Thomas A., b. 1902 or 03
Point Vicente Lighthouse (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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