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Title
Venice diving tower, showing swimmers in the water, ca.1905
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 a group of about twenty-two swimmers in the water below the Venice diving tower -- a wood strut tower rising out of the water near the beach, ca.1905. One person is climing a ladder up the tower near the bottom while another is poised mid-air having just leapt from a swinging trapeze suspended from the tower. A group of swimmers stand in the shallow water in a cordoned-off area forming a water polo (or basketball) court. The shoreline and a canal is visible in the background. Legible signs include: "Venetian Villas, temporary construction".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegative, b&w
17 x 22 cm., 10 x 13 cm.
glass plate negatives
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m5013
USC-1-1-1-5115 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2774
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5013
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2774.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Diving
Canals
Bridges
Los Angeles County--Los Angeles--Venice--General--Beach scenes
Recreational facilities
Time Period
circa 1905
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Venice
Source
1-56-24 [Microfiche number]
2774 [Accession number]
CHS-2774 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
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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