Interior view of the old North Beach bath house plunge, Santa Monica, about 1895

Item Overview

Title

Interior view of the old North Beach bath house plunge, Santa Monica, about 1895

Photographer

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

Date Created

[circa 1895]

Date

1895

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of the interior of the North Beach bath house in Santa Monica. People swim and play in a pool that occupies the foreground. Along the left edge of the image, a wooden support beam arches upward as it extends out-of-frame at top. A hand in motion appears to reach out towards the right from behind the beam. Above the pool, wooden arches stand equally spaced to support a pitched roof. Baskets of flowers hang from rafters over the pool. Semi-circular windows line the wall on the right side of the pool and a walkway stretches across the far end of the pool.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1303. Santa Monica, Calif. About 1895. 1. 2. Two pictures of the North Beach and bathers of the day. 3. Interior view of the old North Beach Bath house plunge. 3 films. It may have been the Venice plunge when first built. Have forgotten which now.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Santa Monica

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Bathhouses--California--Santa Monica
Swimming pools--California--Santa Monica