Image of a line of seagulls perched on a railing of the North Beach Bath House pier in Santa Monica, California. With the brick Santa Monica Electric and Power Co. and Eckert & Hopf's Restaurant. Steps can be seen leading down from the Palisades bluffs. This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). "212 1/2. A Sea Gull Convention, at Santa Monica, Cal." and "H.F. Rile. Photo."--text, on item. Title transcribed from item; date devised by cataloger based on the history of area; the Santa Monica Electric Company built a power house on the beach in the late 1890s and restaurant proprietor Bob Eckert died in 1900, and the Eckert & Hopf's Pavilion Restaurant closed soon after (Ingersoll's Century History: Santa Monica Bay Cities, 198 and 216).
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