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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of passengers standing aboard the S. S. Catalina as the ferry sails through a channel in San Pedro Harbor. The S. S. Catalina enters frame from the right half of the bottom edge and stretches back to the right. Passengers stand and occupy all available space on the top deck. Funnels, a mast and rigging line the center of the ship along the right edge. To the left of the ship, a channel stretches wide to the left and back into the distance behind the ferry. Large petroleum drums stand along the left shore of the channel. Signs on the walls in front of the drums reads, "GARGOYLE," and "GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION." Farther along the peninsula, cranes and docks stand as it stretches into the distance. Text from negative sleeve: 2391. San Pedro Harbor July 29 and 30, 1948 4 views of the inner harbor and San Pedro channel from SS Catalina on way to Wilmington from Catalina
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2391_001 ark:/21198/zz002j3w98
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Marines (Visual works) Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles Ocean travel Ferries--American--California--Los Angeles Passengers--California--Los Angeles Port of Los Angeles
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