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Title: Gun emplacement, Fort MacArthur
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Moore, Cary
Date Created and/or Issued: 1991
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: View of one of the gun emplacements at the former Army installation at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro. The fort was formally created on October 31, 1914, named in honor of Lt. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, father of Douglas MacArthur. It was a training center during World War I, and the first large gun batteries for harbor defense were installed in 1917. The effectiveness of these fixed gun emplacements was debated for many years, and nearby residents were unhappy about the test firings. By the time WWII ended, the guns were already being removed, with the last decommissioned in 1948. Two emplacements are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Battery Osgood-Farley (in 1976) and Battery John Barlow and Saxton (in 1982). The emplacement shown here appears to be Battery Leary-Merriam.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063671
Cary Moore Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
GPC_b117_f004
CARL0000068215
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/117233
Subject: United States.--Army
Military bases--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles)
Fort MacArthur (Calif.)
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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