McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 241

Title: McCarthy Album 05, Photograph 241
Description: Caption: "Fort Whitman, Wash," c. 1910. View of Goat Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Goat Island was the location of Fort Whitman, a small coastal defense fortification built in 1909. The fort consisted of a single battery and a mine field patrol and observation outpost. The buildings were torn down in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: Goat Island, Puget Sound, Washington
Date: 1910
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb05-241
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Goat Island, Puget Sound, Washington
Type: Still Image