View of Balboa Beach at Corona Del Mar, showing the cliffs, 1924

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Photograph of a view of Balboa Beach at Corona Del Mar, showing the cliffs, 1924. Steep slopes covered in scrub vegetation are visible to the left of the image, a short, illegible sign posted on one of the shorter ledges near center. To the right, the surf smashes up against jagged rock formations. In the distance, smoother mountains can be seen.

Asset Metadata

Title View of Balboa Beach at Corona Del Mar, showing the cliffs, 1924

Subject Beaches (lcsh), cliffs (adlf), Orange County -- Corona Del Mar -- Balboa (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Balboa Beach (city or populated place), California (states), Corona del Mar (city or populated place), Orange (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1924-05-10

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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1924-05-10

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7716

Identifier 9095 (accession number), CHS-9095 (call number), CHS-9095 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-7951 (legacy record id), chs-m7716 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-7846 (legacy record id), 1-52- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 7951

Unique identifier UC124455

Legacy Identifier CHS-9095.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.3 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.7 cm × 41.4 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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