Lighthouse-shaped building on Will Rogers State Beach and Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, 1928

Title: Lighthouse-shaped building on Will Rogers State Beach and Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, 1928
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Date Created: 1928
Date: 1928
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: Bird's-eye view from cliff at sunset of building with lighthouse tower, Pacific Coast Highway with cars, and Santa Monica Bay, with sun through clouds in background
This lighthouse building was purchased by Will Rogers in 1928 (Cf. Los Angeles Times article Lighthouse Sold to Will Rogers, December 2, 1928). It was not a functioning lighthouse. It was demolished in 1972.
Caption: Text from the negative sleeve: 1928, Santa Monica, 16, 1979
Handwritten at edge of negative: 966

Genre: acetate film
black-and-white photographs
bird's-eye views
Location: California--Los Angeles
Longitude: 34.028548780907215
Latitude: -118.51982116699219
Resource type: still image
Subjects: California Highway 1 (Calif.)
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Environment
Will Rogers State Beach (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Beaches--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_1532
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002bxcjx
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.