California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of the beach in Santa Monica looking north from a parking lot, 1920-1939

(USC DC Image)

View of the beach in Santa Monica looking north from a parking lot, 1920-1939

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Photograph of a view of the beach in Santa Monica looking north from a parking lot, 1920-1939. The parking lot is in the foreground and is full of early-model automobiles. Beyond the parking lot at center is a large grassy area with a covered walkway running down the middle. There are several people sitting on the grass at right. The beach is in the distance at left, and many bathers and beachgoers are visible. A large beach club is in the background at right, rising five or six stories above the beach. The pier is visible in the distance, and the La Monica Ballroom and a roller coaster are on the pier.

Asset Metadata

Title View of the beach in Santa Monica looking north from a parking lot, 1920-1939

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

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920/1939

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1920/1939

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-m20147

Identifier 14119 (accession number), CHS-14119 (call number), CHS-14119 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-19964 (legacy record id), chs-m20147 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 19964

Unique identifier UC121847

Legacy Identifier CHS-14119.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 13.2 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 33.7 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

Linked assets

California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Conceptually similar

View of the Ocean Park beach and the Santa Monica Pier looking south from Palisades Park in Santa Monica, [s.d.]

Santa Monica from the end of the pier showing the La Monica Ballroom, [s.d.]

View of the Santa Monica beach looking south toward the pier, ca.1920

View of Santa Monica looking south from Palisades Park, ca.1910

View of the beach south of Casa Del Mar Beach Club in Santa Monica looking north to the pier, ca.1920

Birdseye view of the Santa Monica beach looking north from the cliffs of Palisades Park, ca.1920

View of the Edgewater, Breakers, and Castle Del Mar Beach Clubs in Santa Monica, looking south from the water, 1920

Aerial view of the Santa Monica coastline looking north from Palisades Park, ca.1920

View of Santa Monica from the Palisades, looking south towards the pier, 1910-1920

Birdseye view of the Santa Monica coastline looking south from Palisades Park, ca.1925

Beach in Santa Monica in front of the Deauville Beach Club, 1920

View of Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica, [s.d.]

View of the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier showing the roller coaster and a sidewalk car, [s.d.]

View of Santa Monica looking south from the bluffs towards the pier, ca.1925

Aerial view of four Santa Monica beach homes looking down from Palisades Park, 1930

View of the Santa Monica beach and Bath House between Broadway and Colorado Avenue looking north from the pier, ca.1905

Birdseye view of Santa Monica Beach looking north, ca.1915

Aerial view of Santa Monica looking north from the palisades, ca.1930

Bathers crowded onto a beach at Santa Monica's Ocean Park, ca.1910

View of the bluffs and beach at Santa Monica's Palisades Park, ca.1915

Similar tones

View images with similar tones