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Title
Looff Pleasure Pier, "What Is It" entrance
Date Created and/or Issued
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
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
Image of people standing next to the entrance of the "What Is It" ride and "The Whip" ride on the Looff Pleasure Pier in Santa Monica, California. Automobiles can be seen parked in the foreground and the Municipal pier is in the distance at left.
This is a copy negative (a photograph of another photograph). Title based on note from Ernest Marquez "Looff Pleasure Pier, "What Is It" entrance" was written on envelope as it was received; date devised by cataloger based on year the Looff Pier was completed and the style of clothing in the image.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 10 x 12.5 cm
Identifier
photCL_555
490050
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/16732
Subject
Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Amusement rides
Piers
Photographs. (aat)
Place
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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