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Title
Schooner "General McPherson" in full sail departing Los Angeles harbor, 1898
Date Created and/or Issued
1898
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of the schooner "General McPherson" in full sail departing Los Angeles Harbor, 1898. The large schooner with lightly-colored sails floats in the shimmering water at right. A dock with a small warehouse stands in the background on the left. Photoprint reads: "First vessel to leave Los Angeles Harbor with cargo for Mexico".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
17 x 22 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1495
USC-1-1-1-1540 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-4792
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1495
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-4792.jpg
Subject
Shipping
Ships
Transportation--Water--Sail
Transportation features
Time Period
1898
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Pedro
USA
Source
1-50-22 [Microfiche number]
4792 [Accession number]
CHS-4792 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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