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Title
Santa Catalina Island's Pebbly Beach, showing a glass bottom boat, ca.1905
Creator
Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1905
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of about 8 people on Pebbly Beach (or Moonstone Beach?), ca.1905. A rowboat bearing about 8 more people rows toward shore from a glass-bottom boat moored in the cove. Several other people in the glass-bottom boat look on. Lover's Cove, with Abalone Point in the background. Legible signs include "Glass bottom power launch".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 20 x 25 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5504
USC-1-1-1-5617 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-3004
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5504
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-3004.jpg
Subject
Islands
Beaches
Boats and boating
Los Angeles County--Catalina--General
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
islands: Santa Catalina Island
Source
1-26- [Microfiche number]
3004 [Accession number]
CHS-3004 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]

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