View of the Wilmington Railroad wharf, 1870

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Photograph of a view of the Wilmington Railroad wharf, 1870. A muddy shoreline is pictured in the foreground, the shipyard houses of the wharf visible in the background. A Locomotive engine can be seen trailing its cars away from the wharf at center, while a tugboat can be seen sitting low in the water to the left. In the bottom left corner "Godfrey Photo. 1870" is pictured in handwriting.; Photoprint reads: "L.A. and San Pedro Railroad built 1870. L.A. County issed $200,000 in bonds to back it. Phineas Barnum, leader in managing RR. Photo taken at Wilmington of the first train of lumber for Los Angeles. In the photo is the first only paddle-wheel towboat used in LA Harbor".

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Title View of the Wilmington Railroad wharf, 1870

Subject Docks (lcsh), Dwellings (lcsh), piers (adlf), Transportation -- Railroads -- Southern California -- Los Angeles County (file heading), Wharves (lcsh), Wilmington Railroad (subject)

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)

Temporal Subject 1870

Type images

Format 3 photographs : transparencies, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), 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)

Date Created 1870

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-m18065

Identifier 7860 (accession number), CHS-7860 (call number), CHS-7860 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18087 (legacy record id), chs-m18065 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12219 (legacy record id), 1-50- (microfiche number)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18087

Unique identifier UC113661

Legacy Identifier CHS-7860.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 13.0 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 33.2 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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