California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Steel being unloaded from the steamship Calmar at Los Angeles Harbor, October 4, 1937

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Steel being unloaded from the steamship Calmar at Los Angeles Harbor, October 4, 1937

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Photograph of steel being unloaded from the steamship Calmar at Los Angeles Harbor, October 4, 1937. The large steamer can be seen at right as cranes on its decks lower large steel beams to the dock below at left. Several railroad cars can be seen on the dock already loaded with steel. Dockworkers can be seen around the cars. A very large warehouse building can be seen in the background at left.

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Title Steel being unloaded from the steamship Calmar at Los Angeles Harbor, October 4, 1937

Subject Cargo ships (lcsh), Docks (lcsh), Harbors (adlf), Steel industry and trade (lcsh), Stevedores (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1937-10-04

Type images

Format 1 photograph : negative, 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)

Date Created 1937-10-04

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-m11711

Identifier 35839 (accession number), CHS-35839 (call number), CHS-35839 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11123 (legacy record id), chs-m11711 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11123

Unique identifier UC118610

Legacy Identifier CHS-35839.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.1 in × 12.6 in at 300dpi
46.0 cm × 32.1 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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