Beach in Long beach, showing at lifeguard station and Eastman's Shell Store, 1904

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Photograph of the beach in Long beach, showing at lifeguard station and Eastman's Shell Store, 1904. The beach can be seen in the foreground at center, and several people can be seen playing in the sand or in the water at right. The lifeguard station can be seen at left and is a small building with a conical tower on top. In the background at center, the shell store can be seen near the base of the pier, which extends into the ocean at right. A horse and cart advertise Hot Waffles and Tamales.

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Title Beach in Long beach, showing at lifeguard station and Eastman's Shell Store, 1904

Subject Beaches (adlf), Beaches (lcsh), Lifeguards (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Long Beach -- General views -- Beach scenes (file heading), piers (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1904

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 1904

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-m5872

Identifier 32794 (accession number), CHS-32794 (call number), CHS-32794 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-5885 (legacy record id), chs-m5872 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-5980 (legacy record id), 1-32-153 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 5885

Unique identifier UC127682

Legacy Identifier CHS-32794.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.4 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
52.0 cm × 41.8 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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