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Title: Santa Monica Hotel with railroad tracks
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 1877
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 the Santa Monica Hotel on Ocean Avenue with railroad tracks visible in the foreground in Santa Monica, California. A sign that reads "sea shells" is painted on a building at right.
"Santa Monica Hotel, Santa Monica, Calif."--text, handwritten in ink on verso. "From Watkins' Yosemite art gallery, portrait and landscape, 26 Montgomery Street and Woodward Gardens, S.F."--text, printed in front margin. Title devised by cataloger; date supplied by cataloger from caption for reproduction of image in Ernest Marquez publication Santa Monica Beach (Angel City Press, 2004), p. 101. A later image with a bridge built over the ravine that is visible in the center of this image is seen in photCL_555_09_104.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; mount 11 x 16.5 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/19525
Subject: Santa Monica Hotel (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Hotels
Railroad tracks
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Santa Monica (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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