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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A photograph of a series of three photographs put together to form a panorama of San Pedro Harbor. The photographs are by I. W. Taber and have the following captions printed underneath: "3125. San Pedro Lumber Wharves and Wilmington Harbor" ; "3126. Wilmington Harbor from Rattlesnake Island." and "3127. Wilmington Harbor from Rattlesnake Island." Ships and small boats are seen in the harbor.
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A photograph of a series of three photographs put together to form a panorama of San Pedro Harbor. The photographs are by I. W. Taber and have the following captions printed underneath: "3122. Rattlesnake Island, San Pedro Harbor, The Breakwater and Dead Man's Island"; "3123. San Pedro and Rattlesnake Island." and "3124. San Pedro Lumber wharves from Rattlesnake Island." Ships and wharf can be seen in the view.
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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.
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Lumber is stacked on flatcars and on the ground around railroad tracks in a lumber yard in Pasadena, California. Two men work in the yard. A small building with a sign reading "San Pedro Lumber Co.," sits toward the back of the yard, and scattered residences are in the distance.
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Consists of ten photographs of San Pedro, California. Subjects includes the coastline, the San Pedro breakwater, the cutter Collis, Point Fermin Elementary School, Cabillo Beach, Cabrillo Beach Boathouse (demolished in the 1970s), Los Angeles Harbor Light (Angels Gate Lighthouse), and Fish Harbor at Terminal Island. Companies shown on Wharf Street include Seacoast Packing Corporation and Van Camp Seafood Company.
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Photographs depict fishing shacks and fishing boats on Terminal Island and East San Pedro, some with people in the boats or on docks; squatters' huts, subsequently destroyed with the removal of the piers (for example, Item 12); an image of the Old Pilot's House at San Pedro (Item 18); waves breaking on the seashore; and ships in the harbor.
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