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Title
View from the south end of the Playa del Rey lagoon looking northward, ca.1903
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903
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 the view from the south end of the Playa del Rey lagoon looking northward, ca.1903. About eight rowboats can be seen at anchor in the calm water. One person is rowing a boat in the foreground. The shoreline is visible on all three sides. Several of the boats are moored to a dock at right, behind which several structures, mainly tents, are visible. Photoprint reads, "Quiet Waters and Quiet Days".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm., 15 x 25 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2015
USC-1-1-1-2074 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-2925
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2015
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-2925.jpg
Subject
Lagoons
Boats and boating
Los Angeles County--Playa Del Rey
Harbors
Time Period
circa 1903
Place
California
Los Angeles
Playa del Rey
USA
Source
1-56-53 [Microfiche number]
2925 [Accession number]
CHS-2925 [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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