Passengers travel aboard the S. S. Catalina as it sails through San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, 1948

Item Overview

Title

Passengers travel aboard the S. S. Catalina as it sails through San Pedro Harbor, Los Angeles, 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

Photograph of passengers standing aboard the S. S. Catalina as the ferry sails through a channel in San Pedro Harbor. The S. S. Catalina enters frame from the right half of the bottom edge and stretches back to the right. Passengers stand and occupy all available space on the top deck. Funnels, a mast and rigging line the center of the ship along the right edge. To the left of the ship, a channel stretches wide to the left and back into the distance behind the ferry. Large petroleum drums stand along the left shore of the channel. Signs on the walls in front of the drums reads, "GARGOYLE," and "GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION." Farther along the peninsula, cranes and docks stand as it stretches into the distance.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 2391. San Pedro Harbor July 29 and 30, 1948 4 views of the inner harbor and San Pedro channel from SS Catalina on way to Wilmington from Catalina

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

Port of Los Angeles

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Marines (Visual works)
Petroleum industry--California--Los Angeles
Ocean travel
Ferries--American--California--Los Angeles
Passengers--California--Los Angeles