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Title: Boat and lighthouse homes on Oxnard-Santa Monica Blvd., Roosevelt Highway
Creator: Plunkett, Bob
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
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, showing the mimetic architecture of a lighthouse-shaped beach house, known as Trancas Lighthouse, built for actress Pauline Frederick and the boat-shaped home built for businessman Freeman Ford.
"Boat and lighthouse homes on Oxnard-Santa Monica Blvd., Roosevelt Highway" and "20"--text, on negative. Title transcribed from negative; devised by cataloger based on history of the Lighthouse house on Broad Beach, which was built in 1929, and the Roosevelt Highway, which opened in 1929 and was renamed in 1941.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.1 x 15 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488468
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18548
Subject: Frederick, Pauline, 1885-1938--Homes and haunts
Pacific Coast Highway
Architecture, domestic
Beaches
Dwellings
Entertainers--Homes and haunts
Mimetic architecture
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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