California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Aerial view of Santa Monica homes along Pacific Coast Highway, looking south, ca.1930

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Aerial view of Santa Monica homes along Pacific Coast Highway, looking south, ca.1930

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Photograph of an aerial view of Santa Monica homes along Pacific Coast Highway, looking south, ca.1930. The highway is in the foreground at center and follows the contours of the coast as it disappears into the distance at center. The right side of the road is lined with an assortment of large beach houses. On the left side of the highway, a railroad runs parallel to the road and the steep cliffs of Palisades Park rise above the tracks. There are trees along the top and bottom of the cliffs, but the faces are bare rock. There is a small wharf at center that sticks out above the low tide, and a long pier is visible in the background at right.

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Title Aerial view of Santa Monica homes along Pacific Coast Highway, looking south, ca.1930

Subject Architecture, Domestic (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Beaches (lcsh), cliffs (lcsh), piers (lcsh), Santa Monica -- General Views (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 1930

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat)

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

Date Created 1930

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-m2439

Identifier 14071 (accession number), CHS-14071 (call number), CHS-14071 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3360 (legacy record id), chs-m2439 (legacy record id), USC-0-1-1-2500 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3360

Unique identifier UC120492

Legacy Identifier CHS-14071.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.4 in × 11.4 in at 300dpi
49.4 cm × 29.0 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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