Ocean Park in Santa Monica near the Seaside Terrace Apartment Hotel, ca.1915

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Photograph of Ocean Park in Santa Monica near the Seaside Terrace Apartment Hotel, ca.1915. The park is bisected at center by a broad promenade that is full of pedestrians. In the foreground at left is a small "sidewalk car" that is transporting a small group of people. At left is a wooden bandstand decorated with American flags. The Seaside Terrace Apartment Hotel is in the background at left. It is a four-story building with several balconies and many rectangular windows. A line of early-model automobiles is parked in front of the hotel at left. A pier is visible in the distance at right.

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Title Ocean Park in Santa Monica near the Seaside Terrace Apartment Hotel, ca.1915

Subject Afro-Americans (lcsh), Amusement parks (lcsh), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Santa Monica -- Beach scenes -- Pleasure Pier (file heading), Ocean Park (subject), recreational facilities (adlf), Seaside Terrace Apartment Hotel (subject), Tourist trade (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1915

Type images

Format 1 photograph : transparency, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1915

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-m6576

Identifier 14021 (accession number), CHS-14021 (call number), CHS-14021 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6650 (legacy record id), chs-m6576 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6691 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6650

Unique identifier UC116839

Legacy Identifier CHS-14021.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.4 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
34.1 cm × 47.3 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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