Image / S.P. Mammoth Wharf, Port Los Angeles Cal. 4700 feet Long, # 19

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Title: S.P. Mammoth Wharf, Port Los Angeles Cal. 4700 feet Long, # 19
Creator: Rile, Harry Franz
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: 1904
Publication Information: Santa Monica, Cal. : H.F. Rile Photo
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2005-0303.
Elevated view from Santa Monica Palisades of the Southern Pacific R.R. Mammoth Wharf, named Long Wharf, extending into ocean. Shows two railroad tracks, four-car train pulled by steam locomotive on outgoing tracks; vessels moored at end of wharf in distance. Built as a freight pier by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in 1893, demolished in 1920. Advertising text and date on verso.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on a boudoir card : albumen ; 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001386585CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-9863
Language: English
Subject: Southern Pacific Railroad Company--Photographs
Piers & wharves--California--Santa Monica
Railroad tracks--California--Santa Monica
Locomotives--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)--Photographs
Long Wharf (Santa Monica, Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Boudoir card photographs
Albumen prints
Place: California
Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Long Wharf (Santa Monica, Calif.)

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