Man steers a bicycle boat with passengers on the lake at Hollenbeck Park, Los Angeles, about 1898

Title: Man steers a bicycle boat with passengers on the lake at Hollenbeck Park, Los Angeles, 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

Description: Man steers a bicycle boat with passengers in the lake at Hollenbeck Park. A man, woman, and child sit in the boat and the seat is decorated with stars. There is a bridge with people walking across it at the right. Other women stand on the shore at the left. There are trees throughout.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 1651. Los Angeles Parks. Hollenbeck Park, about 1898. 1. View of the lake and trees. 2. Boys on the bank fishing for carp in the lake. 3. Pleasure row boats on the lake. 4. Pleasure boat with a paddle wheel at rear run by man on a bicycle framed hitched up to the wheel. [Handwritten:] For Wesley Day. 4 films.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs
Location: California--Los Angeles
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Lakes & ponds--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Boats--American--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1998_1651_001
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002htrbv
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.