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Title
Cathedral Rock on a beach in La Jolla, ca.1904
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1904
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 Cathedral Rock on a beach in La Jolla, ca.1904. At center a tall rock with smooth sides is visible forming an archway. Sand is visible in the foreground, and smooth, small rocks are visible beyond the archway. A boulder is visible to the left of the archway beyond the rocks, while a tall cliff face is visible at left. The ocean is visible in the background. According to a number of sources, Cathedral Rock collapsed on January 19, 1906 between 3 and 4 a.m.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
13 x 20 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8822
USC-1-1-1-8956 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-45333
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8822
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-45333.jpg
Subject
Beaches
Rocks
San Diego County--La Jolla
Natural rock formations
Time Period
circa 1904
Place
California
La Jolla
San Diego
USA
Source
45333 [Accession number]
CHS-45333 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 6031 [Identifying number]
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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