Birdseye view of the Santa Monica shoreline north from Castellammare Drive, ca.1910

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Photograph of a birdseye view of the Santa Monica shoreline north from Castellammare Drive, ca.1910. The shoreline is at center and a road winds its way along the coast between the calm ocean at left and the steep hills at right. A network of roads cutting through the hills is visible at right, and two large houses are visible overlooking the water below. There is a sandy beach in the lower left corner, and six cars are parked nearby. A large rock formation is visible at center.

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Title Birdseye view of the Santa Monica shoreline north from Castellammare Drive, ca.1910

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1910

Subject coastal zones (adlf), Dwellings (lcsh), Ocean (lcsh), Santa Monica -- General (file heading), Streets (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

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

Temporal Subject 1910

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)

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2105

Identifier 11203 (accession number), CHS-11203 (call number), CHS-11203 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-3040 (legacy record id), chs-m2105 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2165 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 3040

Unique identifier UC120128

Legacy Identifier CHS-11203.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 13.2 in × 18.6 in at 300dpi
33.7 cm × 47.4 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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