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Live whale. Captured at Long Beach, Cal. May 20th, 97. Length 63 ft. # 103

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Title: Live whale. Captured at Long Beach, Cal. May 20th, 97. Length 63 ft. # 103
Creator: Fletcher, W. H. (William H.)
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: 1897
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 1989-0594
PHOTO: ANIMALS: WHALES
Close-up of beached whale at Long Beach. Shows crowd of spectators (men, women, and children) gathered around whale; horse drawn carriages in background, bicycle in foreground. 1989-0594.
From the W.H. Fletcher Collection. # 103.
Gift of Mead B. Kibbey.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photoprint on a boudoir card ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001380458CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-3715
Subject: Whales--California
Beaches--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Group portraits
Place: California
Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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