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Title: Venetian Gardens by Moonlight, Venice, Cal
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1910
Contributing Institution: Pepperdine University, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Collectables
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Description: Better known as the Venice Auditorium, the structure appears here in diffused moonlight. The Auditorium was a central piece of Abbot Kinney's Venice of America, which sought to recreate the feeling of Venice, Italy in Southern California. Complete with Venetian style buildings, canals, and gondolas, Kinney's Venice of America opened on July 4, 1905. On reverse: Venice, Cal. "On the Road of a thousand wonders"
Type: Image
Identifier: http://cdm15730.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15730coll18/id/1155
Subject: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Malibu Historical Collection
Source: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera 0129: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8w95gpb
Relation: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Collectables

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