Image of Robert Newcomb standing in a train car supervising the unloading of a merry-go-round horse sent from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company for the Newcomb Pier in Santa Monica, California. This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). "Newcomb Pier - Walter Newcomb [i.e. Robert Newcomb] and Merry-go-round horse from Philadelphia Toboggan Co."--note from donor Ernest Marquez written on envelope in which negative was received. Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on the history of the Santa Monica Pleasure Pier, which was purchased by Walter Newcomb in 1943 and became the Newcomb Pier until the 1970s. Communication with Santa Monica Pier staff has identified the man in the photograph as Robert Newcomb, the brother of pier owner Walter Newcomb.
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