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Title: Lights from United States Fleet illuminate night sky, San Pedro, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 15, 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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Searchlights filled the sky from the United States Fleet in San Pedro Bay to conclude the town’s four-day annual Fiesta. A regatta of illuminated boats representing the history of sailing in the Pacific were also included in the program.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Gay Scenes End Fiesta,” Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct 1935: A1, 2.
Handwritten on negative: Lights-Warships San Pedro
Text from negative sleeve: 2534---- Warship – Lights – San Pedro – taken from [illegible] 10/15/35 [stamped:] OCT 23 1935
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_8992
ark:/21198/zz002dgzxt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Ships--American--California--San Pedro
Lighting--Special effects
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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