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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Glen Velzy standing on the beach in Newport Beach while holding a fish and posing with fish he and H. H. West caught. Glen stands right-of-center and looks to camera. At right he holds a fish by its tail and in the other he holds what appears to be a decoy(?). Behind and to the left of him, a couple of crates are stacked up and support a wooden plank that stretches horizontally out-of-frame at left. From the plank, about a dozen or so fish hang. Up from the beach, a car is parked at far left and a house stands at far right. Telephone poles and lines stretch 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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