Lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895

Photograph of a lumber dock at the San Pedro Harbor Entrance between Dead Man's Island, West Jetty and Terminal Island ca.1895. Just past the building in the extreme foreground which is obscured by trees is a large quantity of stacked processed lumber (planks and beams). Just beyond this in the harbor is a long ship with four flag-topped masts beyond which several much smaller boats and the mouth of the breakwater between Terminal Island and the harbor can be seen. Dead Man's island has not yet been removed. It is visible on the left side of the mouth. A dredge is active in the channel. Tripling its population between 1900 and 1910 causing the real estate and construction industries to boom, Los Angeles began importing large quantities of lumber from the Pacific Northwest.