Birdseye view of the beach in Santa Monica looking south, ca.1915

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the beach in Santa Monica looking south, ca.1915. The beach is a wide, sandy tract of land that extends from the foreground away from the viewer into the distance at center. There are a few people playing in the surf and many people resting beneath umbrellas or tents on the sand. The left side of the beach is bordered by a cement sidewalk, and a large number of pedestrians is walking along the path. At left, a series of two-story beach houses lines the sidewalk. Several early-model automobiles are parked in driveways and alleys near the sidewalk at left. There is a short pier jutting out into the water in the background at center and a large building is constructed near the right side of the pier.

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Title Birdseye view of the beach in Santa Monica looking south, ca.1915

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Los Angeles County -- Santa Monica -- Beach scenes -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (counties), Santa Monica (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1915

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m6641

Identifier 14047 (accession number), CHS-14047 (call number), CHS-14047 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6706 (legacy record id), chs-m6641 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6756 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6706

Unique identifier UC121576

Legacy Identifier CHS-14047.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 13.5 in at 300dpi
47.1 cm × 34.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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