Venice Wharf and Pavilion, ca.1913

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Photograph of the Wharf and Pavilion at Venice Beach, with Ship Cafe in background, ca.1913. Only one person is visible on the wharf. He stands beneath the lamp posts at left while the large Pavilion building stands behind him. Two small structures sit along the front edge of the wharf while the Ship Cafe, a restaurant which resembles a ship, sits on supports in the water at right. The rest of the dock area can be seen in front of the hills in the right background.

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Title Venice Wharf and Pavilion, ca.1913

Subject Amusement parks (lcsh), Auditoriums (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Los Angeles -- Venice -- Amusement pier (file heading), piers (lcsh), piers (adlf), Restaurants, lunch rooms, etc. (lcsh), Ship Cafe (subject), Venice Auditorium (subject), Wharves (lcsh)

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 1913

Type images

Format 1 photograph : glass photonegative, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), 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 1913

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-m4952

Identifier 2068 (accession number), CHS-2068 (call number), CHS-2068 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25409 (legacy record id), chs-m4952 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5050 (legacy record id), 1-56-40 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25409

Unique identifier UC128320

Legacy Identifier CHS-2068.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.4 in × 14.6 in at 300dpi
46.9 cm × 37.2 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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