Old stage road through Arch Rock on Santa Monica Beach, looking north, ca.1895

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Photograph of the old stage road to San Francisco (later Pacific Coast Highway) passing under Arch Rock (a stone formation) on Santa Monica Beach, looking north, ca.1895. A horse-drawn carriage is about to drive under it toward the foreground. The Ringe family destroyed the arch in 1906 so they could move heavy equipment through the area.; "The road through the rock was in such bad shape that when the Ringe people were building their Railroad about early 1900 the contractor who had to bring supplies over the road dynamited it and built the road higher up above the tide. At the time I photographed the road in 1895, high tides rushed through the arch. M.D. Darlington was contractor for building the railroad and was given permission to reconstruct the road by the County Supervisors who were much criticized by people who did not want the Arch destroyed."

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Title Old stage road through Arch Rock on Santa Monica Beach, looking north, ca.1895

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Los Angeles City -- Pacific Palisades -- Castle Rock -- Architecture Rock (file heading), natural rock formations (adlf), Santa Monica (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pacific Coast Highway (roadway), Pacific Palisades (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1895

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-m1983

Identifier 2011 (accession number), CHS-2011 (call number), CHS-2011 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2829 (legacy record id), chs-m1983 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2040 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2829

Unique identifier UC116698

Legacy Identifier CHS-2011.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 22.4 in × 17.8 in at 300dpi
57.1 cm × 45.3 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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