California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Birdseye view of the Santa Monica beach looking north from the cliffs of Palisades Park, ca.1920

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Birdseye view of the Santa Monica beach looking north from the cliffs of Palisades Park, ca.1920

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the Santa Monica beach looking north from the cliffs of Palisades Park, ca.1920. The steep cliffs of Palisades Park are at right. A dirt path runs from the top of the cliffs to the level at which the photograph was taken. The horizontal surfaces of the cliffs are covered with palm trees and bushes while the vertical surfaces are bare rock. Pacific Coast Highway is visible at the base of the cliffs at left and a beach borders the road at left. A line of early-model automobiles is parked along the edge of the sand, and may people are on the beach and in the waves.

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Title Birdseye view of the Santa Monica beach looking north from the cliffs of Palisades Park, ca.1920

Subject Agave (lcsh), Automobiles (lcsh), Beaches (lcsh), cliffs (adlf), cliffs (lcsh), Roads (lcsh), Santa Monica -- General (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1920

Type images

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

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1920

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-m6411

Identifier 14058 (accession number), CHS-14058 (call number), CHS-14058 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6500 (legacy record id), chs-m6411 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-6526 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-6714 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6500

Unique identifier UC116958

Legacy Identifier CHS-14058.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 15.8 in × 9.6 in at 300dpi
40.2 cm × 24.5 cm at 300dpi

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Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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