View showing shacks and cottages along the beach in Santa Monica California, as seen from the Palisades bluffs, with the "99 steps" wooden staircase leading down from the bluff, the Arcadia Hotel, and the remains of the Los Angeles and Independence railroad wharf in the distance. Title transcribed from item. Date devised by cataloger based on history of the Arcadia Hotel, which was completed, in 1887 and the railroad tracks (not yet visible), which were built along the base of the bluffs in 1893.
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