California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island with a small steamer docked at the pier, ca.1889

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View of Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island with a small steamer docked at the pier, ca.1889

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Photograph of a view of Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island with a small steamer docked at the pier, ca.1889. The pier is at center and juts into the bay at right. There are several small sailing vessels, as well as rowboats, on the smooth water of the harbor. The edge of Avalon is at left and is composed of rows of large canvas tents facing the water. The city is surrounded by steep mountains which are covered in small shrubs.

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Title View of Avalon Harbor on Santa Catalina Island with a small steamer docked at the pier, ca.1889

Subject Boats and boating (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Harbors (lcsh), Islands (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Catalina -- Avalon Harbor (file heading), Steamboats (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Avalon (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1889

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1889

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5560

Identifier 12951 (accession number), CHS-12951 (call number), CHS-12951 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-26078 (legacy record id), chs-m5560 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-5677 (legacy record id), 1-26- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 26078

Unique identifier UC129169

Legacy Identifier CHS-12951.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.0 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.8 cm × 40.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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