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Order Number	00024471
Title	Fort Drum Barracks
Collection ID	Works Progress Administration Collection
Location/Accession	WPA 2315-B 4x5
Date	1939
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Exterior view of the Fort Drum Barracks in Wilmington in 1939. The barracks were used as a staging station for troops in transit during the Civil War. Camp Drum came into existence only because Camp Latham, which was the southern staging area for the war's California Volunteers, was rapidly becoming overcrowded. Established in late September 1861, Latham was situated on Ballona Creek in Rancho La Ballona where the present day intersections of Overland and Jefferson Boulevards are located in Culver City.
Publisher	Federal Writers' Project.
Subject	United States.--Army--Barracks and quarters. Dwellings--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles). Fortification--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles). Drum Barracks (Los Angeles, Calif.). Fort Drum (Calif.). Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.). United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Works Progress Administration Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Internal Notes	Additional print: 00068940 (WPA Collection, same neg. #)
Sub-Collection Name	Works Progress Administration Photo Collection