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Title
View of Avalon Bay and Sugarloaf, ca.1887
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1887
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 Avalon Bay and Sugarloaf, ca.1887. Several boats can be seen out in the bay: two sailboats, one of which is Capt. Alonso Wheeler's Ruby Schooner, are seen with two small flatboats in the portion of the bay in front of the mountain ridge and hill pictured in the background. A Warrior steamboat can be seen in the distance between the ridge and the hill. Picture file card reads: "His [Captain Wheeler's] daughter Annie and Genevieve at Baldwin Park.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5716 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7532
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5716
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7532.jpg
Subject
Catalina--Avalon Harbor
Islands
Harbors
Boats and boating
Hotels, taverns, etc
Steamboats
Wheeler, Captain Alonso
Wheeler, Annie
Wheeler, Genevive
Bays
Time Period
circa 1887
Place
Avalon
California
Los Angeles
USA
islands: Santa Catalina Island
Source
1-26- [Microfiche number]
7532 [Accession number]
CHS-7532 [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
chs-m265

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