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Title: Trancas Beach, Highway 101, Rancho Malibu
Creator: Plunkett, Bob
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of Broad Beach near Trancas Canyon along the Roosevelt Highway (later Pacific Coast Highway) in Malibu, California, looking south towards Point Dume. The lighthouse-shaped home, known as Trancas Lighthouse, was the home of actress Pauline Frederick. The boat shaped home was the house of businessman Freeman Ford.
"Trancas Beach, Highway 101, Rancho Malibu, Calif." and "27"--text, on negative. Title transcribed from negative; date devised by cataloger based on history of the Lighthouse house on Broad Beach, which was built in 1929.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 12.5 x 17.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488439
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18524
Subject: Frederick, Pauline, 1885-1938--Homes and haunts
Pacific Coast Highway
Beaches
Dwellings
Entertainers--Homes and haunts
Mimetic architecture
Ocean
Roads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Malibu (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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