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Title
View of San Pedro Harbor (or Los Angeles Harbor), showing the arrival of the Great White Fleet, ca.1908
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1908
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 San Pedro Harbor (or Los Angeles Harbor), showing the arrival of the Great White Fleet, ca.1908. Spectators line the piers to watch the ships as they slowly make their way to the piers. A locomotive is moving down the railroad tracks that line the port passing buildings, storehouse, ship docks, and other buildings. Picture file card reads: "Looking southeast from a position which would now (1944) correspond to the rear of Berth 87, showing the Fifth St. Ferry Landing at the right."
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
glass plate negatives
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m4482
USC-1-1-1-4578 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-5473
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m4482
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-5473.jpg
Subject
Harbors
Wharves
Docks
Ships
Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Los Angeles Harbor--General views--1900's--2 of 2
Time Period
circa 1908
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilmington
San Pedro
Source
1-50- [Microfiche number]
5473 [Accession number]
CHS-5473 [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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