Man operates a steam engine on the beach, Santa Monica, about 1895

Item Overview

Title

Man operates a steam engine on the beach, 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

Man operates a steam engine on the beach. He wears a hat and holds his hands up to the engine. Steam comes out of the top. There are stairs above the beach. At the right, Eckert & Hopf's restaurant is visible.

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

34.011867

Latitude

-118.495919

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Steam engines
Beaches--California--Santa Monica