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Giant swordfish caught at Los Angeles, ca. 1910 – Vintage Wall Art

Giant swordfish caught at Los Angeles, ca. 1910, [ca. 1910] — historic photograph
Giant swordfish caught at Los Angeles, ca. 1910, [ca. 1910]. Historic photograph from the Los Angeles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Giant swordfish caught at Los Angeles, ca. 1910 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Giant swordfish caught at Los Angeles, ca. 1910

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A massive swordfish hangs from a hoist at Los Angeles, its long bill stretching nearly the full length of the frame, while men stand close by to show the scale of the catch. Photographs like this one circulated widely in the early 1900s, when big-game fishing off Southern California was becoming a popular spectacle and a point of civic pride. The picture comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, a large body of news photographs that Bain's agency distributed to newspapers across the country. Its caption card gives only the title and an approximate date of about 1910, so the exact day and the names of the anglers are not recorded.

Created / published[ca. 1910]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,125 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-160227

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