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Description
Photograph of the Japanese abalone fisheries at White's Point, Palos Verdes, near San Pedro, California, ca.1905. About 4 men stand in a boat docked at a wooden shelter at the end of a jetty built of rocks. Another man stands on the jetty. A smaller empty boat is moored to a stake near by.
Type
image
Format
3 photographs : photonegative, photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 16 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs
Japanese Americans Abalone fisheries Shellfish trade Fishing Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Miscellaneous Industry--Fishing Los Angeles--San Pedro and Wilmington--Commercial fishing Minorities--Japanese Fisheries
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
California Los Angeles San Pedro Palos Verdes USA
Source
1-50-24; 1-107-24 [Microfiche number] 4956 [Accession number] CHS-4956 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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