Civilians practice plotting target coordinates for defense battery guns at Ft. MacArthur, 1921.
Item Overview
- Title
- Civilians practice plotting target coordinates for defense battery guns at Ft. MacArthur, 1921.
- Date Created
- September 29, 1921
- Date
- 1921-09-29
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Likely related to Los Angeles Times article, “Civilians Fire Defense Guns: Fighting Parson Prepares for a Scrap.: Minister Among Those to Man Battery at MacArthur.: Enthusiastic Over Power to Use Death-Dealers: Fort Commander Lauds Skill of Amateur Crew.” 30 Sept. 1921: II3.
Handwritten on negative: Ft. McArthur [sic] Plotting room
Most likely men of the first civilian coast artillery gun crew, all members of the Progressive Business Club of Long Beach, plotting coordinates for an exercise in test firing the 12-inch mortar battery guns at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Location
- San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.711964
- Latitude
- -118.296181
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Forts & Fortifications--American--California--San Pedro
Fort MacArthur (Calif.)
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_4019
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cpqz7
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .