Port Los Angeles with two men on the pier and mountains in the distance, Santa Monica, about 1898

Item Overview

Title

Port Los Angeles with two men on the pier and mountains in the distance, Santa Monica, about 1898

Photographer

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

Date Created

About 1898

Date

1898

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Port Los Angeles was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad and opened in 1894. It was also known as the Long Wharf and the Mile Long Pier.
Port Los Angeles with two men on the pier and mountains in the distance. There is a boat in the water. The man who is sitting may be fishing off the pier. There are large ropes on the pier, as well as various equipment. The top of the negative is torn.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1232. Port Los Angeles, Calif. About 1898. 1. Unloading the SS Corona at the wharf. 2. 3. 4. 5. Five views of the SS Corona leaving the wharf at Port Los Angeles. 6. The ocean end of the mile long wharf at Port Los Angeles where we used to fish. Great pompano, king fish, smelt, mackerel fishing off the pier. We used to also crawl down underneath the pier and fish for sculpin. I worked for the S. P. R. R. in dispatcher office and was thru [sic] Saturdays at 10 a.m. Jumped in the baggage car of the 10 o'clock train and went right thru [sic] to Port Los Angeles, stopping in Santa Monica to run into Eckert and Hoffs for some clams while the train was backing off the bluff to go thru [sic] the tunnel down onto the beach and out onto the Port Los Angeles Pier, where it laid till 4 p.m., when it whistled the fishermen in to come home. 6 films.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Santa Monica

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Piers & wharves--California--Santa Monica