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Title
Birdseye view of Santa Monica Canyon, ca.1875
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 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 birdseye view of Santa Monica Canyon, ca.1875. The canyon is at right and opens towards the ocean at left. There is a line of small white tents along the base of the far wall of the canyon. There is a horse-drawn vehicle visible in the canyon at right, and at left near the ocean is a large group of people. There are tall mountains in the distance and a large cliff in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : transparency, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
transparencies
photographs
Identifier
chs-m19175 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10229
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m19175
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10229.jpg
Subject
Canyons
Beaches
Time Period
circa 1875
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
10229 [Accession number]
CHS-10229 [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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