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Title: Palisades Beach Road, Santa Monica
Creator: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
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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: Elevated view of houses along the beach in Santa Monica, California, looking south from the bluffs of Palisades Park, with railroad tracks and the Palisades Beach Road (part of the Roosevelt Highway, later Pacific Coast Highway), below, and the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Park Pier visible in the distance. The mansion beach house of actress Marion Davies (which later became the Ocean House, or Oceanhouse hotel, and Sand and Sea Beach Club) is visible with multiple fireplaces in the foreground.
Title devised by cataloger; date devised by cataloger based on the history of the Davies' mansion, which was built in 1926.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
489023
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18882
Subject: Davies, Marion, 1897-1961--Homes and haunts
Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Beaches
Dwellings
Entertainers--Homes and haunts
Roads
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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