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Description: Banning's Landing in Wilmington, 1870. View of Wilmington harbor, showing the Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad, which had been completed by Phineas Banning in 1869--the first railroad to the harbor. Before that, freight was transported to Los Angeles by ox carts (carretas) and later by horse-drawn wagons.
Title: Wilmington-1870
Credit: http://photos.lapl.org/carlweb/jsp/DoSearch?databaseID=968&index=w&terms=00024476
Author: Credited to Godfrey.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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