Soldiers stand around the camp set up at Agricultural Park, Los Angeles, 1900

Item Overview

Title

Soldiers stand around the camp set up at Agricultural Park, Los Angeles, 1900

Photographer

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

Date Created

1900

Date

1900

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of several soldiers standing around their camp set up in Agricultural Park (current day Exposition Park). In the foreground at center, a soldier stands with his back to the camera. To the left of him, a large camp stove sits on the ground. Behind the stove, a cook stands leftmost and faces right. To the right of him, a soldier stands, facing right. Behind them, a soldier sits in to front of a tent, which extends out-of-frame at left. In the distance at right, a couple of men walk through the camp. Tents stand in a row behind them.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1632. Los Angeles Parks. Agricultural Park. 1900. 1. 2. When the boys commenced to come home from Manila and other points in the Spanish American war there was a great big camp set up in Agricultural Park, and we went down to visit the place one Sunday. No one there we knew, at least in this picture. 2 films

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Military camps--American--California--Los Angeles
Military personnel--American--California--Los Angeles
Tents--California--Los Angeles