Santa Monica Beach, north from canyon, ca.1921

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Photograph of Santa Monica Beach, north from canyon, ca.1921. Several buildings are situated close to the beach to the left of the street. More homes and businesses are on the other side of the street. The street curves alon the shores and disappears into the mountains in the distance. Utility poles line the street.

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Title Santa Monica Beach, north from canyon, ca.1921

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1921

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Los Angeles -- Pacific Palisades (file heading), piers (lcsh), Santa Monica -- General Views (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1921

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), 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)

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-m3464

Identifier 8327 (accession number), CHS-8327 (call number), CHS-8327 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-4415 (legacy record id), chs-m3464 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-3538 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 4415

Unique identifier UC119036

Legacy Identifier CHS-8327.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 12.8 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 32.6 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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