Wilmington Transportation Company's steamboat "Falcon" in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1905

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Title Wilmington Transportation Company's steamboat "Falcon" in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1905

Description Photograph of the Wilmington Transportation Company's steamboat "Falcon" in San Pedro, Los Angeles, ca.1905. The boat, engaged in service to Catalina Island, is visible at center in the middle of the harbor. Harbor buildings are visible to the right, and town buildings are visible to the left. What is either a small dock, or the deck of a flat boat is visible in the lower left foreground. The boat itself sports a two-leveled cabin and two masts. People lean along the edges of the deck.

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1900/1910

Subject Docks (lcsh), Harbors (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Los Angeles -- San Pedro and Wilmington -- Los Angeles Harbor -- General views -- 1900's -- 2 of 2 (file heading), ships (lcsh), Wharves (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:chs,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)

Temporal Subject 1900/1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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)

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-m4481

Identifier 7484 (accession number), CHS-7484 (call number), CHS-7484 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5135 (legacy record id), chs-m4481 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-4577 (legacy record id), 1-50-98 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5135

Unique identifier UC127291

Legacy Identifier CHS-7484.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.7 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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Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

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