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Title: Aerial view of Santa Catalina Island
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Santa Catalina Island, often referred to as just "Catalina", is a rocky island located approximately 22 miles south-southwest of Los Angeles. The island is 22 miles long and 8 miles across at its greatest width. Avalon, or Avalon Bay - the only "official" city on Santa Catalina Island, is a rural waterfront town with the usual tourist-oriented businesses and services lining the coastline. Beside Avalon, the only other center of population is the small, unincorporated town of Two Harbors on the island. As of the 2000 census, there were approximately 3,696 people residing on the island.
Aerial view of Santa Catalina Island, surrounded by the vast and empty Pacific Ocean. Though in this shot the island appears to be uninhabited, it is actually a very popular vacation spot with over 3,000 permanent residents. Photograph dated December 2, 1955.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00088659
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
GPC_b22_f2_i42 (Photographic print); KHAF 231-18
CARL0004938508
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/4573
Subject: Islands--California, Southern
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)--Aerial views
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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