Passengers travel aboard the S. S. Catalina, Santa Catalina Island, 1948

Item Overview

Title

Passengers travel aboard the S. S. Catalina, Santa Catalina Island, 1948

Photographer

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

Date Created

[between July 29-30, 1948]

Date

1948-07-29/1948-07-30

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Passengers stand on the top deck of the S. S. Catalina while en route to Catalina Island. Dozens of passengers stand clustered together in the foreground on the top deck of the S. S. Catalina ferry. They occupy the bottom half of the image and all generally face towards the left. Some rigging rises from the deck at left, behind the crowd. Low mountains stand in the distance at left.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2389. Catalina Island trip July 29 and 30, 1948 1 Passengers on upper deck SS Catalina 2 approaching Catalina 3 same 4 Speedboats meet Catalina at Avalon 5 Avalon harbor 6 Casino where Sugar Loaf stood 7 Passengers on front part of Catalina 8 Same 9 Same

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Santa Catalina Island

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Ferries--American--California--Santa Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.)
Ocean travel
Passengers--California--Santa Catalina Island