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Title
View of a crane used in the construction of the breakwater in San Pedro, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
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 a crane constructing the breakwater in San Pedro, ca.1900. The crane is at the left side of the image, although its long arm reaches to the right side. The crane is railcar mounted, and rests on tracks supported by wooden beams on the stones of the breakwater. There is man standing to the right of the crane, guiding its payload, which is obscured by the breakwater itself. There is the edge of a hill in the background. Preliminary work on the breakwater began in 1898, and it cost approximately $3 million.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m18592
USC-1-1-1-14364 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10012
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18592
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10012.jpg
Subject
Breakwaters--Design and construction
Harbors
Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Engineering--Breakwater
Breakwaters
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Pedro
USA
Source
1-50- [Microfiche number]
10012 [Accession number]
CHS-10012 [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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