Image of a boy and girl standing in front of a backyard playhouse with a toy baby carriage with a doll and toy wheel barrow, and dog. The verso contains an advertisement for the Pacific Photograph Gallery with two studio portraits of children captioned "A Santa Monica Living Picture" and "This is the way children smile when they have their Photos taken by Rile," as well as a photograph of beachgoers in swimsuits in the ocean, captioned "A Bathing Scene in February," with an inset portrait presumably of H.F. Rile. Pacific Photograph Gallery. At the Arcadia Pavilion, is the place for all kinds of fine Photographs. Tintypes in bathing costume a specialty. The oddest collection of scenery and accessories of any gallery in Southern California ... H.F. Rile, Artist, Santa Monica, Ca."--text from advertisement on verso. Title devised by cataloger. Date devised by years of activity of H. F. Rile, who opened a studio in 1887.
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