Squatters' cabana cabins on the beach in Santa Monica, ca.1916

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Photograph of squatter's cabana cabins on the beach in Santa Monica, 1916. A collection of tents and ramshackle huts can be seen lined-up along the beach, with many of the homes at center and at right hanging clothes out on the line to dry. In the background, a separate home can be seen installed along the slope of the palisades at center. Picture file card reads "These are squatter's cabins, Mr. Keogh's among them. They squatted there for seven years and then the SP made them sign a lease".

Asset Metadata

Title Squatters' cabana cabins on the beach in Santa Monica, ca.1916

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Bungalows (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Santa Monica -- Architecture -- Domestic (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1916-09

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photonegative, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (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 1916-09

Contributor Keaogh, John R. (donor)

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-m2449

Identifier 12910 (accession number), CHS-12910 (call number), CHS-12910 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3368 (legacy record id), chs-m2449 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2511 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3368

Unique identifier UC120521

Legacy Identifier CHS-12910.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.8 in × 5.8 in at 300dpi
53.0 cm × 14.8 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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