North Beach Bath House with the beach, ocean, and mountains surrounding it, Santa Monica, about 1895

Item Overview

Title

North Beach Bath House with the beach, ocean, and mountains surrounding it, Santa Monica, about 1895

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

about 1895

Date

1895

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

North Beach Bath House with the beach, ocean, and mountains surrounding it. There is a pier at the left with people at its base. American flags fly at the right, as well as at the top of the bath house. People sit on the beach and walk on the boardwalk. The camera obscura is visible at the center of the photograph.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1231. Santa Monica, California about 1895. 1. 2. 3. 4. Four view of the old North Beach Bath House. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Six views of the old Santa Monica pier, and beach in the vicinity. 11. 12. Two views of the children's play ground and teeter board. 13. A steam engine on the beach but what it is doing I do not recall. Note the sign "Eckert & Hoff [sic] Restaurant" on 13. A great resort in those days. Many a fish dinner I ate in there. Also we used to buy our clams for bait there when we went to Port Los Angeles to fish. Also ran a big bar. 13 films.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Santa Monica

Longitude

34.010677

Latitude

-118.499842

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bathhouses--California--Santa Monica
Beaches--California--Santa Monica