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Title: Santa Monica Beach view northwest from wharf
Creator: Morrison, E. G., -1888
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
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Description: Image of people on the beach and in the surf in front of the Santa Monica Bath House in Santa Monica, California, with trees on the bluffs above. A group of women in plain clothes are standing in the foreground. There is a boardwalk near the shops with signs that read "Coffee and Ice Cream Parlor" and "Fruits, Candies, Lemonade, Cigars." A windmill is visible behind the buildings.
"Santa Monica Beach view N.W. from wharf"--text, handwritten in pencil in front margin. "E.G. Morrison, Photographer, At Santa Monica, In Tent, On the Beach, near Santa Monica Bath House ... E.G. Morrison"--text, stamp on verso. Title transcribed from item; date approximated by cataloger based on photographer's death in January 1888. Image reproduced in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), page 98. Light green mount.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 13 x 20.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19679
Subject: Santa Monica Bathhouse (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Bathhouses
Beaches
Beachgoers
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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