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Title: Santa Monica beach
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1907
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Historical photo copied August 18, 1937.
Panoramic view of Santa Monica looking toward the north beach where the amusement center started. Note the haunted swing to the left center of the photo. The area is north of the Santa Monica pier, built in 1895. The view shows Eckert and Hopt's new restaurant building and Jones bath house beyond, as well as the bandstand on the bluff.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064905
Los Angeles Public Library Legacy Collection
C-70 4x5; S-001-084.1 4x5; N-000-653 8x10
CARL0000068762
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/2605
Subject: Beaches--California--Santa Monica
Beachgoers--California--Santa Monica
Restaurants--California--Santa Monica
Bathhouses--California--Santa Monica
Bandstands--California--Santa Monica
Amusement parks--California--Santa Monica
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs

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