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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph looking out towards the ocean while Glen Velzy poses with fish he and H. H. West caught in Newport Beach. Glen Velzy stands in the foreground at right; he faces and looks towards the left. A fishing pole is propped up behind him as he holds a wood plank that extends horizontally to the left. About a couple dozen fish dangle from the plank. A couple crates sit on the sand beneath the plank at left. The top crate reads, "HYDRO PURA," and "TWO WATER SOF[T]E[NER] THE BEST CLEANSER KNOWN HYDR[A] PURA BA[TH] TOILE[T] LAUND[RY] KITCHEN SCHALK CHEMICAL CO. LOS ANGELES, CAL." Waves crash on the shore at left and a pier extends across the background. Text from negative sleeve: 706. Newport Beach, Calif. April 1914. See negative #631 - Laguna Beach. Glen Velzy and I had been fishing at Laguna, and on the way home stopped at Newport Beach and took some photos of our catch. 7 pictures of myself with our fish. 4 pictures of Glen Velzy with our fish. 2 pictures of myself on the Newport Pier with a big sea bass some fellow had caught. 2 pictures of the fellow who caught the big sea bass. Now unknown. 15 negatives.
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