Admiral William V. Pratt boards U.S.S. Texas for transfer of command ceremony, Los Angeles Harbor, 1931
Item Overview
- Title
- Admiral William V. Pratt boards U.S.S. Texas for transfer of command ceremony, Los Angeles Harbor, 1931
- Date Created
- September 15, 1931
- Date
- 1931-09-15
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, is greeted by officers as he boards the U.S.S. Texas to speak at the transfer of command ceremony. He is pictured here wearing a black hat.
Admiral Frank H. Schofield became commander-in-chief of the United States Fleet, succeeding Admiral Jehu V. Chase on a ceremony aboard the U. S. S. Texas, just off the coast of Los Angeles Harbor.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, “Navy Guns Roar for Schofield,” Los Angeles Times, 16 Sept 1931: A1, 2.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
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Pratt, William Veazie, 1869-1957
Texas (Battleship) - Location
- Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 33.734449
- Latitude
- -118.233036
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Ships--American--California--Los Angeles
Military officers--American--California--Los Angeles
Military personnel
Naval parades & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_1624
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002dc440
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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