View of the amusement park at Venice Beach silhouetted by moonlight, ca.1910

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Photograph of a view of the amusement park at Venice Beach silhouetted by moonlight, ca.1910. The amusement park is at center, and several structures are visible, including the masts of a tall ship. In the foreground, several small waves are breaking on the shore. Large clouds can be seen in the sky, and the moon can be seen behind a cloud at center. The Santa Monica Mountains are visible in the background at right. Compares to CHS-12977.

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Title View of the amusement park at Venice Beach silhouetted by moonlight, ca.1910

Subject Amusement parks (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Venice -- Amusement pier (file heading), piers (lcsh), piers (adlf), Venice Amusement Park (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 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 1910

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-m4983

Identifier 32516 (accession number), CHS-32516 (call number), CHS-32516 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25297 (legacy record id), chs-m4983 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5085 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25297

Unique identifier UC128238

Legacy Identifier CHS-32516.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.6 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
55.0 cm × 42.7 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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