The Washington docked at Los Angeles Harbor showing cargo, [s.d.]

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Photograph of the Washington docked at Los Angeles Harbor showing cargo, [s.d.]. A large ship with a darkly colored bottom portion and a lightly colored deck can be seen in the center with the hull in the nook of a wharf. A warehouse stand to the right while cargo is piled up in front. Railroad tracks can be seen in the foreground while a line of cars on both sides of the street are parked behind the tracks. Pipes, planks, and sacks of cargo are piled up while a machine sits on the tracks to the right with the words "Crescent Wharf Warehouse Company" written on the side.

Asset Metadata

Title The Washington docked at Los Angeles Harbor showing cargo, [s.d.]

Subject Docks (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Shipping (lcsh), ships (lcsh), Wharves (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), San Pedro (city or populated place), USA (countries), Wilmington (city or populated place)

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m22168

Identifier 35885 (accession number), CHS-35885 (call number), CHS-35885 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-21264 (legacy record id), chs-m22168 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21264

Unique identifier UC134888

Legacy Identifier CHS-35885.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.9 cm × 34.4 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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