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Title
Exterior view of the Grand Hotel on Santa Monica Beach, ca.1950
Creator
Padilla, Julius
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
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 an exterior view of the Grand Hotel on Santa Monica Beach, ca.1950. The Grand Hotel can be seen at center. It is at very large rectangular building with large awnings in front and a rectangular tower on top. Two more very large buildings can be seen further down the beach at right. The beach in front of the buildings is extremely crowded , and many bathers can be seen in the water in the foreground. Several small beach houses are visible at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m2367
USC-0-1-1-2428 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-32496
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m2367
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-32496.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Hotels, taverns, etc
Grand Hotel (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Los Angeles County--Santa Monica--Beach scenes--General
Buildings
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
California
Los Angeles
Ocean Avenue
Santa Monica
USA
Source
32496 [Accession number]
CHS-32496 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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