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Title: Ships unloading in Los Angeles Harbor
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Watson Photos
Date Created and/or Issued: 1946
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: Photo shows 6 tons of art treasure being unloaded from a liner. The full size reproduction of "The Christus" by Bertel Thorvaldsen, Denmark's most eminent sculptor, is removed from the liner, Marine Leopard, to be taken to Forest Lawn Memorial-Park. Because of its gross weight of six tons, a lighter was required to remove the statue to shore. Photo dated: August 24, 1946.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00043559
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 233.
CARL0000047178
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13862
Subject: Harbors--California--Los Angeles
Docks--California--Los Angeles
Cargo ships--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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