People sunbathing on the rocky shoreline at Laguna Beach, ca.1933

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Photograph of people sunbathing on the rocky shoreline at Laguna Beach, ca.1933. Men and women in swimwear dot the beach, sitting amidst umbrellas, coolers and blankets. At right, the ocean can be seen rushing in, while a rocky ledge lines the scene at left. A long staircase winds down the side of this ledge at center, and a couple can be seen on a wooden bench atop the rocky siding at left.

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Title People sunbathing on the rocky shoreline at Laguna Beach, ca.1933

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Beaches (adlf), Orange County -- Laguna Beach (file heading), Views (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Laguna Beach (city or populated place), Orange (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1933

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), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1933

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-m24590

Identifier 39709 (accession number), CHS-39709 (call number), CHS-39709 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-23860 (legacy record id), chs-m24590 (legacy record id), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 23860

Unique identifier UC126038

Legacy Identifier CHS-39709.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 29.6 in × 23.1 in at 300dpi
75.3 cm × 58.7 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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