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Title
Drawing depicting Santa Monica Beach and Canyon, ca.1870
Date Created and/or Issued
1865/1875
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 a drawing depicting Santa Monica Beach and Canyon, ca.1870. Beach houses and tends are strewn across the beach at the bottom of a large hill peppered with trees. The silhouette of two beachgoers can be seen walking along the shore, fronted by the ocean. Rocky terrain is visible in the background to the left.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m3470
USC-1-1-1-3544 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7188
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m3470
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7188.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Los Angeles--Santa Monica--Santa Monica Canyon
Los Angeles--Pacific Palisades--General views
Coastal zones
Time Period
1865/1875
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
coastal zones: Santa Monica Beach and Canyon
Source
1-54- [Microfiche number]
7188 [Accession number]
CHS-7188 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 17 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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