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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West and George Thomas posing for a photograph with caught fish hanging from a wooden beam. H. H. wears a fedora hat and mid-length jacket; he is smoking a cigar. George Thomas wears an ascot cap and vest. He poses for the photograph with one hand holding a fish's tail and the other holding a cane. They stand to the left of and slightly beneath nine fish that hang on a wooden beam from nails. They stand atop a cliffside with wooden framework and beams stretching overhead. The ocean is in the background at left. On the right, a wooden shack (partial view) sits with wooden framework extending from it towards the center of the photograph. Annually, the Rubber Men's Picnic was organized by leaders in the rubber industry for tire and automotive accessory dealers in the automobile industry. Text from negative sleeve: 278 Catalina Island. Rubber Men's Picnic. 1909 Left to right: H.H.West and George Thomas, who was an auto dealer at Pomona, Calif. 2 negatives.
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_000278_002 ark:/21198/zz002hq39t
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fishing--California Dead animals--California Fish--California West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958 Thomas, George Rubber Men's Picnic. Annual Outing (1909)
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