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Title
Drawing depicting Santa Monica Canyon, looking north, showing the beach and first bath house, ca.1870
Date Created and/or Issued
1865/1875
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 a drawing depicting Santa Monica Canyon, looking north, showing the beach and first bath house, ca.1870. The rock face of the canyon is visible in the right foreground, more mountainous terrain visible along the horizon across the water at center. The bath house is shown, a long wooden shack, to the left below the cliff. Several beach-goers stand by it and play in the nearby ocean.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
art
Identifier
chs-m17930 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-7189
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m17930
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-7189.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Camping
Los Angeles--Santa Monica--General views
Time Period
1865/1875
Place
California
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades
USA
canyons: Santa Monica Canyon
Source
1-54-81 [Microfiche number]
7189 [Accession number]
CHS-7189 [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
chs-m265

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