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Title
Santa Monica Bath House on Santa Monica Beach, ca.1884
Creator
Wolfenstein
Date Created and/or Issued
1879/1889
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 Santa Monica Bath House on Santa Monica Beach, ca.1884. The long, two-story barn-style bath house stands in the background just below the land shelf behind it where a small residence-style house has been built. Crowds of beachgoers make their way towards the water to the left and a few have already made it in. Mountains are visible in the left background. Picture File Card reads "South beach called Old Santa Monica.".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2402
USC-1-1-1-2462 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7057
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2402
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7057.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Baths, Public
Los Angeles County--Santa Monica--Beach scenes--General
Santa Monica Bath House
Commercial sites
Time Period
1879/1889
Place
California
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
USA
Source
1-54- [Microfiche number]
7057 [Accession number]
CHS-7057 [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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