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Santa Catalina Island submarine cable installation photographs [graphic].
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Title:
Santa Catalina Island submarine cable installation photographsCreator/Contributor:
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph CompanyCreator/Contributor:
American Telephone and Telegraph CompanyCreator/Contributor:
United States, War Department.Abstract:
Photographs documenting various phases of installation of submarine telecommunications cable from mainland California at San
Pedro to Santa Catalina Island. Many photographs are reproduced in accompanying brochure.
Date:
1922-1923 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCables, Submarine -- California -- Photographs
Telephone cables -- California -- Photographs
Telecommunication cables -- California -- Photographs
Santa Catalina Island (Calif.) -- Photographs
Note:
Photographers mostly unknown. One print stamped: Stagg photographer, 1053 S. Hill St. Los Angeles.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Most prints annotated with typescript captions on versos.
Collection also includes technical drawings; various memoranda, reports, correspondence and other papers concerning the laying
of the cable; and a promotional brochure: Pictorial story of the laying of the Catalina submarine cable. Much documentation
bears letterhead of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph, American Telephone and Telegraph, and the United States War Department.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
graphic
photoprint
1 box (14 photographic prints) : b&w ; various sizes.
Language:
English