One of the 14-inch caliber guns at Fort MacArthur with the parade of the navy fleet in the background, San Pedro, 1932

Item Overview

Title

One of the 14-inch caliber guns at Fort MacArthur with the parade of the navy fleet in the background, San Pedro, 1932

Date Created

April 19, 1932

Date

1932-04-19

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

One of the 14-inch guns at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro with the parade of the navy fleet in the background.
This photograph appears with the article, "Greatest Armada in Nation's History Passes in Review; Navy Parades Strength in Sea and Air Tableau; Hundreds of Ships and Aircraft Pass in Stately Review Before Crowds Masses on Shore." Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 1932: A1.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: U.S. Navy, Ships, Fleet Parade at San Pedro 1932
Text from newspaper caption: View of Fleet From Fort MacArthur. Above -- Cars parked between Point Fermin and White Point, which carried part of the throng that witnessed the great naval display. Below -- View of the passing fleet from the shadow of a fourteen-inch disappearing rifle on Fort MacArthur's upper reservation.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Location

San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Longitude

33.711964

Latitude

-118.296181

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Artillery (Weaponry) $ American--California--Los Angeles
Fort MacArthur (Calif.)