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Title: Santa Monica Beach, California
Creator: Continent Stereoscopic Company
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872
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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 the beach in Santa Monica, California, with beachgoers and buildings visible, including Michael Duffy's bath house visible in the background at the foot of the stairs along the Palisades cliffs.
"171-Santa Monica Beach, California." and "Continent Stereoscope Co., Publishers, New York"--text on item front. Title transcribed from item; date devised by cataloger based on approximate year given for the same image, titled "1060. On the Beach at Santa Monica, Cal.," reproduced in The Continent Stereoscopic Company: Southern California in the 1870s (Los Angeles: Philip D. Nathanson, 2011), pages 42, and the date, March 1876, that Michael Duffy built the first bath house in Santa Monica.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 10.7 x 17.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16981
Subject: Bathhouses
Beaches
Cliffs
Photographs. (aat)
Stereographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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