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Title: Fort Drum Barracks
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Exterior view of the Fort Drum Barracks in Wilmington in 1939. The barracks were used as a staging station for troops in transit during the Civil War. Camp Drum came into existence only because Camp Latham, which was the southern staging area for the war's California Volunteers, was rapidly becoming overcrowded. Established in late September 1861, Latham was situated on Ballona Creek in Rancho La Ballona where the present day intersections of Overland and Jefferson Boulevards are located in Culver City.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00024471
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 2315-B 4x5
CARL0000029214
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/1747
Subject: United States.--Army--Barracks and quarters
Dwellings--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Fortification--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Drum Barracks (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Fort Drum (Calif.)
Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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