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Title: L.A. City Fireboat on display during San Pedro's annual Fiesta, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: October 15, 1935
1935-10-15
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.
A number of firefighters spray water from hoses on an illuminated Los Angeles City Fire Boat.
This photograph is likely related to the article, “Gay Scenes End Fiesta,” Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct 1935: A1, 2.
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.
Handwritten on negative: Lights - Fire boat - 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_8993
ark:/21198/zz002dgzzb
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Boats--American--California--San Pedro
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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