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Title: Aerial detail of Santa Monica Pier
Creator: Dunning Air
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
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: Detailed aerial view looking south showing the Municipal Pier and the Santa Monica Amusement Pier, including the Whirlwind Dipper roller coaster, Looff Hippodrome, and the not-yet-open La Monica Ballroom in Santa Monica, California. The beach, buildings, and houses south of the pier can be seen.
"Santa Monica Pier 1924"--text, handwritten on glass. Title devised by cataloger; date transcribed from glass negative. This image is reproduced in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), page 134.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : glass negative ; plate 10.2 x 12.7 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
487585
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16895
Subject: Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Amusement rides
Piers
Roller coasters
Photographs. (aat)
Aerial views. (aat)
Glass plate negatives. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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