View of the waterfront business and amusement district of Redondo Beach from the Horseshoe pier, ca.1925

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Photograph of a view of the waterfront business and amusement district of Redondo Beach from the Horseshoe pier, ca.1925. The pier is at center and is crowded with pedestrians. A series of covered benches run along the middle of the pier. A tall wooden rollercoaster is visible in the background at left, and several large, light-colored buildings are in the background at right and center. The El Ja Arms hotel, which was demolished in the mid-1960s, is in the background as well.

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Title View of the waterfront business and amusement district of Redondo Beach from the Horseshoe pier, ca.1925

Subject Amusement parks (lcsh), El Ja Arms Hotel (subject), piers (lcsh), recreational facilities (adlf), Redondo Beach -- General views -- Panoramas (file heading), Roller coasters (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1925

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 1925

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-m1119

Identifier 14186 (accession number), CHS-14186 (call number), CHS-14186 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-1999 (legacy record id), chs-m1119 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1158 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 1999

Unique identifier UC117355

Legacy Identifier CHS-14186.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.2 in × 15.8 in at 300dpi
51.4 cm × 40.3 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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