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Title
View of the Playa Del Rey lagoon and the fifty room Del Rey Hotel, ca.1885
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1885
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 Playa Del Rey lagoon and the fifty room Del Rey Hotel, ca.1885. The hotel is on the left side of the image, across the lagoon from the camera. The lagoon is in the foreground and stretches from the bottom left corner towards Venice in the upper right. There is a wharf on the right side of the lagoon. In the background is Santa Monica Bay, and beyond this body of water is a mountain range.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m1968
USC-1-1-1-2024 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-10531
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1968
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-10531.jpg
Subject
Del Rey Hotel
Lagoons
Hotels, taverns, etc
Los Angeles County--Playa Del Rey
Lakes
Time Period
circa 1885
Place
California
Los Angeles
Playa del Rey
USA
Source
1-56- [Microfiche number]
10531 [Accession number]
CHS-10531 [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
USC
chs-m265

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