Spectators watch as the Catalina ferry sails from San Pedro harbor and into the distance, Los Angeles, about 1910

Item Overview

Title

Spectators watch as the Catalina ferry sails from San Pedro harbor and into the distance, Los Angeles, about 1910

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

[circa 1910]

Date

1910

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of spectators standing on the shoreline and looking out towards the water where the Catalina ferry sails out of the harbor in San Pedro. A rock wall lines the shoreline that stretches across the image in the near distance. It juts further out into the water at right. A cluster of several spectators stand and sit along the rocks with their backs to the camera as they look out towards the water that lies beyond the shore. In the distance at left, the Catalina Ferry sails out of the harbor and towards the horizon. Smoke billows from its 2 smokestacks. The ocean surrounds the boat and extends to the horizon. Barely visible on the horizon and to the left of the ferry stands a lighthouse.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1207. San Pedro, California, about 1910. The breakwater and Point Firmin [sic]. 1. 2. Two pictures of the Catalina Boat leaving San Pedro harbor. 3. Group on the point watching the boat. Think Glen Velzy, wife, Mrs G.M. West, Mary A West, with Frances and Elizabeth West are out in front and cannot well be seen. Some outsiders evidently came down behind us. 3 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Port of Los Angeles

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Marines (Visual works)
Ferries--American--California--Los Angeles