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Title: Anacapa Island shipwreck
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Creator: Blakeley, Hal
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
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: Photograph of a block print
A block print by Hal Blakesley, entitled "Anacapa Island Cat and Rat" and the wrecked ship, Winfield Scott. A cat appears on the left, and a rat on the right. The shipwreck is in the center. The disaster occurred on December 1, 1853, when the captain chose to sail inland of the island to save time and sailed head-on into Anacapa in dense fog. 400 passengers were removed as well as gold bullion being shipped from San Francisco to Panama during the Gold Rush.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00063269
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Anacapa Island.
CARL0000067355
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/108443
Subject: Boats and boating--California--Anacapa Island
Cats--California--Anacapa Island
Rats--California--Anacapa Island
Shipwrecks--California--Anacapa Island
Anacapa Island (Calif.)
Channel Islands (Calif.)

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