California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of the mouth of Santa Monica Canyon, ca.1906

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View of the mouth of Santa Monica Canyon, ca.1906

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Photograph of a view of the mouth of Santa Monica Canyon, ca.1906. The wide canyon is at center and its opening is at right. A railroad runs across the mouth of the canyon on an elevated ridge. There are several buildings on the flat plain in the middle of the canyon, including a large, two-story building with a flat roof at center, and a two-story house in the distance at center. A large crowd of people is gathered around a building at right, and an early-model automobile can be seen nearby. The bottom of the canyon has been cleared of brush, perhaps in anticipation of construction There is a tall ridge forming the wall of the canyon in the background, and several buildings can be seen on top.

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Title View of the mouth of Santa Monica Canyon, ca.1906

Subject Beaches (lcsh), canyons (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Los Angeles -- Pacific Palisades -- General views (file heading), Los Angeles -- Santa Monica -- Santa Monica Canyon (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1906

Type images

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

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

Date Created 1906

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-m3467

Identifier 14417 (accession number), CHS-14417 (call number), CHS-14417 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4417 (legacy record id), chs-m3467 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-3541 (legacy record id), USC (project), 23 (unidentified no.)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4417

Unique identifier UC118996

Legacy Identifier CHS-14417.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 12.4 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 31.4 cm at 300dpi

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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

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