Image / Men with surfboards posing on the beach, Santa Monica

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Title: Men with surfboards posing on the beach, Santa Monica
Creator: Powell Press Service
Date Created and/or Issued: 1934
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 a group of surfers with surfboards posing on the beach in Santa Monica, California. The surfboard in middle is inscribed with "Pacific Systems Homes Inc." and the board on the far right reads "SM Guard."
Title devised by cataloger; date supplied by cataloger based on the presence of the breakwater in related item photCL_555_06_785. Some of these men appear in related items. Pacific Systems Homes Inc. was a home building company and the son of one of the founders convinced the company in 1929 to start producing surfboards.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.7 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489723
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18448
Subject: Beaches
Surfboards
Surfers
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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