Studio portrait of a dog with collar sitting in front of a painted backdrop of the ocean. "Coules, Superior Finish, North Beach, Santa Monica, Cal."-- imprint on bottom of card mount. "Steckel 220 S. Spring St. Los Angeles Cal."--upside down on mount Title devised by cataloger. Date approximated by cataloger based on photographer history. Coules appears to be the photographer because of the ocean backdrop and the photograph mounted with Coules' name underneath. (George Steckel's imprint is upside down on the card mount, partially underneath the print.) Steckel first appears at 220 S. Spring St. around 1893; Charles J. Coules appears to be in Santa Monica in 1890 or earlier, and later moves to Los Angeles. Photographer "Charles J. Coules, one of the proprietors of the Sunbeam photograph gallery on North Beach ..." ("Santa Monica," Los Angeles Herald, Sept. 7, 1890)
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