North Beach Bath House and bowling pavilion, Santa Monica, California, ca.1905

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Photograph of North Beach Bath House and bowling pavilion, Santa Monica, California, ca.1905. View from the pier with the ocean in the foreground. Many people are frolicking on the beach and in the surf. Some of them have umbrellas. The large bath house has two banners flying from its roof. Several American flags fly on flagpoles in front of the buildings abutting the beach. Legible signs include: "Bathing suits", "North Beach bath-house", "Curios", "Bowling pavilion", "Plunge and baths".

Asset Metadata

Title North Beach Bath House and bowling pavilion, Santa Monica, California, ca.1905

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Bowling alleys (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Santa Monica -- Beach scenes -- General (file heading), North Beach Bath House (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1905

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 17 x 22 cm., 20 x 25 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 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-m6642

Identifier 1279 (accession number), CHS-1279 (call number), CHS-1279 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6707 (legacy record id), chs-m6642 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6757 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6707

Unique identifier UC121551

Legacy Identifier CHS-1279.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.6 in × 14.3 in at 300dpi
47.4 cm × 36.5 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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