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Title
Santa Monica Beach group portrait
Creator
Rile, H. F., 1860-1949
Date Created and/or Issued
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of a souvenir studio portrait of five men wearing bathing suits and standing in front of a painted beach backdrop and holding a sign that reads "Santa Monica Beach" in Santa Monica, California. The lettering on the bathing suits reads (backwards) "North Beach Bath [?] Co."
Title devised by cataloger; date and photographer supplied by cataloger based on information with reproduced image in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), p. 66.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : tintype ; plate 8.5 x 6.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19916
Subject
Bathing suits
Swimmers
Photographs. (aat)
Group portraits. (aat)
Tintypes (prints) (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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