Young people playing volleyball on the beach, ca.1940

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Photograph of young people playing volleyball on the beach, ca.1940. Five people stand on each side of the volleyball net in preparation for the next play. Eight of the players are boys and men wearing small bathing suits while one man in the top left of the court wears pants and a shirt and a women to the right of center wears a lightly colored two piece bathing suit. In the foreground, a boy to the right extends his arms overhead while the volleyball flies in the air. The sand volleyball court is bordered by a string that forms the rectangle and a tightly strung net in the center. Spectators sit on benches in the background while others stand or sit around ping pong tables and benches away from the sand.

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Title Young people playing volleyball on the beach, ca.1940

Subject Beaches (adlf), Beaches (lcsh), Recreation -- Beach scenes (file heading), Volleyball (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 19 x 23 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1940

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10815

Identifier CHS-46611 (call number), CHS-46611 (filename), 46611 (identifying number), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-17978 (legacy record id), chs-m10815 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-10965 (legacy record id), 84-1-1171 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 17978

Unique identifier UC113496

Legacy Identifier CHS-46611.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 25.3 in × 19.6 in at 300dpi
64.3 cm × 49.9 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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