California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

View of Santa Monica looking south from the bluffs towards the pier, ca.1925

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View of Santa Monica looking south from the bluffs towards the pier, ca.1925

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Photograph of a view of Santa Monica looking south from the bluffs towards the pier, ca.1925. The top of the cliffs of Palisades Park is at left and is densely covered with short palm trees. A low wooden fence runs along the edge of the cliff. The ocean is at right and is bordered by a sandy beach that is full of people. A line of beach houses and other buildings runs parallel the beach and the adjacent Pacific Coast Highway. A pier juts out into the water in the background at right, and several structures are erected on the wharf, including a roller coaster and several buildings. The old Venice amusement park is visible in the distance.

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Title View of Santa Monica looking south from the bluffs towards the pier, ca.1925

Subject Amusement parks (lcsh), Amusement rides (lcsh), Automobiles (lcsh), Beaches (lcsh), cliffs (adlf), cliffs (lcsh), Roads (lcsh), Roller coasters (lcsh), Santa Monica (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1925

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 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-m6415

Identifier 14057 (accession number), CHS-14057 (call number), CHS-14057 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6503 (legacy record id), chs-m6415 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-6530 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6503

Unique identifier UC116975

Legacy Identifier CHS-14057.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 11.2 in × 7.2 in at 300dpi
28.5 cm × 18.2 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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