Venice diving tower, showing swimmers in the water, ca.1905

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Photograph of a group of about twenty-two swimmers in the water below the Venice diving tower -- a wood strut tower rising out of the water near the beach, ca.1905. One person is climing a ladder up the tower near the bottom while another is poised mid-air having just leapt from a swinging trapeze suspended from the tower. A group of swimmers stand in the shallow water in a cordoned-off area forming a water polo (or basketball) court. The shoreline and a canal is visible in the background. Legible signs include: "Venetian Villas, temporary construction".

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Title Venice diving tower, showing swimmers in the water, ca.1905

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Bridges (lcsh), Canals (lcsh), Diving (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Venice -- General -- Beach scenes (file heading), recreational facilities (adlf)

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 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), negatives (photographic) (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 1905

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-m5013

Identifier 2774 (accession number), CHS-2774 (call number), CHS-2774 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25561 (legacy record id), chs-m5013 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5115 (legacy record id), 1-56-24 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25561

Unique identifier UC128339

Legacy Identifier CHS-2774.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 13.9 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 35.4 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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