Military troops in Exposition (Agricultural) Park, Los Angeles, 1898

Item Overview

Title

Military troops in Exposition (Agricultural) Park, Los Angeles, 1898

Photographer

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

Date Created

1898

Date

1898

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Military troops in Exposition (Agricultural) Park. The troops are lined up in the distance and there is one man walking by material which is on the ground a the right. A fence is at the far right. The troops are quite far away and difficult to make out. There are trees in the distance.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1700. Los Angeles, California. Agricultural Park, 1898. 1. 2. 3. 4. During the Spanish American War in 1898 regiments of troops were stationed in Agricultural Park, where they drilled and waited for call to service. I went down one Sunday and took these four pictures of the place, and the troops drilling, 4 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

Longitude

-118.286350
34.016641

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Artillery (Troops)--American--California--Los Angeles