Civilians practice plotting target coordinates for defense battery guns at Ft. MacArthur, 1921.

Title: Civilians practice plotting target coordinates for defense battery guns at Ft. MacArthur, 1921.
Date Created: September 29, 1921
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Most likely men of the first civilian coast artillery gun crew, all members of the Progressive Business Club of Long Beach, plotting coordinates for an exercise in test firing the 12-inch mortar battery guns at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.
Handwritten on negative: Ft. McArthur [sic] Plotting room
Likely related to Los Angeles Times article, “Civilians Fire Defense Guns: Fighting Parson Prepares for a Scrap.: Minister Among Those to Man Battery at MacArthur.: Enthusiastic Over Power to Use Death-Dealers: Fort Commander Lauds Skill of Amateur Crew.” 30 Sept. 1921: II3.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: United States Army, Bases, Ft. MacArthur

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Forts & Fortifications--American--California--San Pedro
Fort MacArthur (Calif.)
Location: San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Longitude: 33.711964
Latitude: -118.296181
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_4019
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpqz7
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