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Title
View of Fish Harbor, showing the Star-Kist and Van Camp canneries, San Pedro, 1954
Date Created and/or Issued
1954
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 view of Fish Harbor, showing the Star-Kist and Van Camp canneries, San Pedro, 1954. Water is shown in the foreground, while close in the background, the Van Camp cannery building is visible at left, its docks surrounded by small fishing boats. Farther in to the right, the Star-Kist cannery can be seen. Both buildings feature long sluices or conveyor belts that lead down to the docks. Photo sleeve reads "Cookie".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
9 x 15 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m23452 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-49429
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m23452
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-49429.jpg
Subject
Harbors
Fishing
Fishing boats
Time Period
1954
Place
California
Los Angeles
San Pedro
USA
Source
49429 [Accession number]
CHS-49429 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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