File:Workers drying abalone shells in the sun in southern California (CHS-1399).jpg

Summary

Workers drying abalone shells in the sun in southern California

Photograph of 4 men drying abalone in dozens of large wooden trays layed out on the beach north of Point Fermin, San Pedro, California. The rocky shoreline and palisades are visible behind them.

Call number: CHS-1399

Filename: CHS-1399

Coverage date: circa 1900

Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Format: glass plate negatives

Type: images

Geographic subject (city or populated place): San Pedro; San Pedro

Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections

Accession number: 1399

Microfiche number: 1-107-13; 1-50-6

Archival file: chs_Volume76/CHS-1399.tiff

Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960

Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Geographic subject (country): USA

Format (aacr2): 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 21 x 26 cm.

Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California

Subject (adlf): industrial sites

Project: USC

Repository email: specol@usc.edu

Contributing entity: California Historical Society

Date created: circa 1900

Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries

Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs

Geographic subject (state): California

Subject (file heading): Industry -- Fishing

Legacy record ID: chs-m11939; USC-1-1-1-12091

Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.

Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles

Subject (lcsh): Fishing; Abalone fisheries

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