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Abraham, Mary, and Mertie Whitaker sit in the sand with William and Josie Shaw, as well as Lelia Gillan and Agnes Hawley, Santa Monica, 1901

Description:
Josie Shaw was Mertie Whitaker's sister. William Shaw was Josie's husband, and Lester and Romayne Shaw were their sons. Abraham and Mary Whitaker were Mertie and Josie's parents. Agnes Hawley later became Forrest Whitaker's wife. Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Date:
July 4, 1901
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Abraham, Mary, and Mertie Whitaker sit in the sand with William and Josie Shaw, as well as Lelia Gillan and Agnes Hawley, Santa Monica, 1901

Abraham, Mary, and Mertie Whitaker sit in the sand with William and Josie Shaw, as well as Lelia Gillan and Agnes Hawley, Santa Monica, 1901

Description:
Josie Shaw was Mertie Whitaker's sister. William Shaw was Josie's husband, and Lester and Romayne Shaw were their sons. Abraham and Mary Whitaker were Mertie and Josie's parents. Agnes Hawley later became Forrest Whitaker's wife. Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Date:
July 4, 1901
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Abraham, Mary, and Mertie Whitaker sit in the sand with William and Josie Shaw, as well as Lelia Gillan and Agnes Hawley, Santa Monica, 1901

Ade Bystle and Lottie Bystle on the beach, near the water's edge, Santa Monica, about 1920

Description:
Photograph of Ade Bystle standing on the beach, while Lottie Bystle sits on the sand during a visit to Santa Monica. Ade Bystle stands in the near distance at center. He looks towards and points to the camera. His pants are rolled up to his knees. Lottie Bystle sits on the sand in front of and to the right of Ade. She sits with her back to the camera. Two unknown women stand behind and to the left of Ade. They are in profile, facing right, as they approach the water. The beach stretches on an upward angle across the lower portion of the image from right to left. Small waves approach the beach from the right and lap onto the rocky shore. The ocean extends out into the distance. In the far distance, a pier enters the image from the left and stretches horizontally across the photograph.
Date:
[circa 1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Ade Bystle and Lottie Bystle on the beach, near the water's edge, Santa Monica, about 1920

Beach Club or the Swimming Club, Santa Monica, 1952

Description:
P. H. Philbin, of Chicago, a former owner of the Sorrento Beach Club building, had planned a 12-story apartment building on the site in 1953. The project included utilizing the massive concrete Sorrento Beach Club structure which had been abandoned in an unfinished state. The project was controversial, as some property owners felt that it would mar the beauty of the Santa Monica Palisades Park.
Date:
1952
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Beach Club or the Swimming Club, Santa Monica, 1952

Beachgoers stand and sit in the surf at North Beach, Santa Monica, about 1895

Description:
Photograph of several beachgoers standing in the surf and sitting on the beach at North Beach in Santa Monica. The shore stretches across the foreground on a slight upward angle from left to right. Waves roll onto the shore towards the camera. Two children sit with their backs to the camera at left. Another person stands with their back to camera just beyond and to the right of them. At the surf, about 3 women stand in or near the water with their backs to the camera. Another woman sits on the beach at far right near the surf. A few people appear to play in the water in the distance at left. Along the right edge and in the far distance, the end of a pier juts into the frame.
Date:
[circa 1895]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Beachgoers stand and sit in the surf at North Beach, Santa Monica, about 1895

Bird's-eye view from Palisades park towards Santa Monica Beach facing northwest, 1946-1950

Description:
Bird's-eye view from Palisades Park towards Santa Monica Beach facing northwest. Four people (two women in view, two farther ahead) walk down the Idaho path at right. A portion of the refurbished Palisades Park wooden rail fence is viewed atop the cliff. Beach homes line Pacific Coast Highway at left.
Date:
[between 1946 and 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view from Palisades park towards Santa Monica Beach facing northwest, 1946-1950

Bird's eye view of Marion Davies’ beach house from Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1946-1950

Description:
View of Santa Monica beach homes lining Pacific Coast Highway, including the Marion Davies home on the right at foreground. Photographed from Palisades Park facing southward, with the wood rail replacement fence viewed at left, the Santa Monica pier visible in the distance.
Date:
[between 1946 and 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's eye view of Marion Davies’ beach house from Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1946-1950

Bird's-eye view of Marion Davies' house on Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, 1939

Description:
Photographs housed in this negative sleeve (labeled “P53-P56”) feature Marion Davies’ home. Two (P55 and P56) show the original rustic fence lining the path at Palisades Park. That fence was replaced around 1946. This photo was likely taken in 1939. See image ark nos. 21198/zz002d4zrr and 21198/zz002d4zpq.
Date:
1939
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Marion Davies' house on Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, 1939

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach and the Pacific Coast Highway, circa 1946

Description:
View from the cliff edge at Palisades Park facing southward. From left to right: pedestrians viewed walking along the Palisades Park path, its replacement fence in view. Below, three people walk up the Idaho foot path; the California Incline is seen in the background and to the right, followed by Pacific Coast Highway, beach houses and beach below, with the pier in the distance.
Date:
[circa 1946]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach and the Pacific Coast Highway, circa 1946

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1934-1945

Description:
Bird's-eye view of the Pacific Coast HIghway and Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park (left). People are visible behind the twisted branch fence of the park. The pier and breakwater and visible in the distance. Along the beach is a parking lot filled with cars and a building with arched windows. A partially visible sign on the building (demolished now) reads "CLUB M[...]AMAR."
Date:
[between 1934-1945]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park, Santa Monica, 1934-1945

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica,

Description:
Bird's-eye view facing southeast along the twisted branch fence along the cliff edge of Palisades Park and the cliff face below towards Santa Monica Beach and the Pacific Coast Highway, taken from the area of Montana Ave. Marion Davies estate is the first structure in the row of beach houses on the right.
Date:
1950
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica,

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
The vines along the wall of Marion Davies' estate in this image are at the same stage of growth as in image ark no. 21198/zz002d7jst, dated to 1934. This is also the year that the breakwater next to Santa Monica pier was completed, which is visible in this photograph in the distance.
Date:
1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1934

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1947 to 1952

Description:
Bird's-eye view facing southeast along the cliff face below Palisades Park towards Santa Monica Beach and the Pacific Coast Highway, taken from the area of Montana Ave. Marion Davies beach house is the second structure on the right.
Date:
1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1947 to 1952

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1947 to 1952

Description:
Bird's-eye view facing southeast along the cliff face below Palisades Park towards Santa Monica Beach and the Pacific Coast Highway, taken from the area of Montana Ave. Marion Davies beach house is the first structure on the right.
Date:
[between 1947 to 1952]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1947 to 1952

Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1947 to 1952

Description:
Bird's-eye view facing southeast along the cliff face below Palisades Park towards Santa Monica Beach and the Pacific Coast Highway, taken from the area of Montana Ave. Marion Davies beach house is the first structure on the right.
Date:
[between 1947 to 1952]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Bird's-eye view of Santa Monica Beach from Palisades Park taken from the area of Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1947 to 1952

Carolyn Bartlett beneath a palm tree on a Palisades Park cliff at Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, circa 1946

Description:
Photograph of Carolyn Bartlett seated beneath one of two palm trees on the Palisades Park cliffs. A portion of the cliffs and wooden rail fence can be seen at left, with structures along Pacific Coast Highway (California Highway 1) and the Santa Monica coastline in view at right. Photographed at the foot of Montana Avenue, above the Sorrento Beach Club.
Date:
[circa 1946]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Carolyn Bartlett beneath a palm tree on a Palisades Park cliff at Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, circa 1946

Carolyn Bartlett beneath palm trees on a Palisades Park cliff at Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1946

Description:
Photograph of Carolyn Bartlett seated, reading, beneath one of two palm trees on the Palisades Park cliffs. A portion of the cliffs and wooden rail fence can be seen at left, with structures along Pacific Coast Highway (California Highway 1) and the Santa Monica coastline in view at right. Photographed at the foot of Montana Avenue, above the Sorrento Beach Club.
Date:
1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Carolyn Bartlett beneath palm trees on a Palisades Park cliff at Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, 1946

Carolyn Bartlett beneath palm trees on a Palisades Park cliff, Santa Monica, 1946

Description:
At some point after WWII the rustic branch fence at Palisades park was replaced with two types: a pre-cast concrete fence with a criss-cross design and a wood board fence. Bartlett photographs of Palisades Park dated 1946 show the rustic branch fence and the wood rail fence.
Date:
1946
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Carolyn Bartlett beneath palm trees on a Palisades Park cliff, Santa Monica, 1946

Children Celebrate the 4th of July at Ocean Park, Santa Monica, 1930

Description:
View of a group of children preparing to set off fireworks at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica. Boys and girls in swimsuits hold flags and wooden sticks resembling bayonets. One girl in the center of the photo holds a large firework, its wick extending out. Another girl looks down at a miniature cannon that can be seen in the foreground on the sand.
Date:
July 4, 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Children Celebrate the 4th of July at Ocean Park, Santa Monica, 1930

Children Celebrate the 4th of July at Ocean Park, Santa Monica, 1930

Description:
This image is of a group of children setting off fireworks at Ocean Park Beach in Santa Monica. Boys and girls in swimsuits hold flags and wooden sticks, saluting each other. One boy in the center of the photo lights a firework, with one hand covering an ear in anticipation of the oncoming boom. A miniature cannon can be seen in the foreground next to the firework.
Date:
July 4, 1930
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Children Celebrate the 4th of July at Ocean Park, Santa Monica, 1930

Crowd at the Beach, Santa Monica, 1945-49

Description:
This image is of a crowd of people on the shore in Santa Monica. In the foreground, a man and two boys can be seen, all wearing swim shorts. The man is likely a lifeguard, as he holds a floatation device on which the letters "guards" can be seen. He also wears a hat. He leans on the bumper of a jeep, one hand on the shoulder of the boy closest to him. In the distance, other men can be seen standing in the shore in beach attire.
Date:
[between 1945-1949]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowd at the Beach, Santa Monica, 1945-49

Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
Crowds of beachgoers, wearing bathing suits and swim trunks, frolic in the ocean, along the water’s edge, and on a stretch of sand populated with beach umbrellas. View facing south toward the Santa Monica Pier. At left stands the Grand Hotel (formerly the Breakers Beach Club, far left), Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar (closest to the pier).
Date:
July 15,1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
Crowds of beachgoers, wearing bathing suits and swim trunks, frolic in the ocean, along the water’s edge, and on a stretch of sand populated with beach umbrellas. View facing south toward the Santa Monica Pier. At left stands the Grand Hotel (formerly Breakers Beach Club, far left), Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar (closest to the pier).
Date:
July 15, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
Crowds of beachgoers, wearing bathing suits and swim trunks, frolic in the ocean, along the water’s edge, and on a stretch of sand dotted with beach umbrellas. View facing the Grand Hotel (formerly Breakers Beach Club, far left), Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar. The Santa Monica Pier is partially in view at right.
Date:
July 15, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
Crowds of beachgoers, wearing bathing suits and swim trunks, frolic in the ocean, along the water’s edge, and on a stretch of sand populated with beach umbrellas. View facing south toward the Santa Monica Pier. A coast guard boat is viewed in the ocean, not far from shore, with a smaller boat moving near it. Further out to sea are large ship and boat.
Date:
July 15, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Description:
Crowds of beachgoers, wearing bathing suits and swim trunks, frolic in the ocean, along the water’s edge, and on a stretch of sand populated with beach umbrellas. View facing south toward the Santa Monica Pier. Several buildings stand at left, including the Grand Hotel (formerly the Breakers Beach Club), Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar (closest to the pier).
Date:
July 15, 1934
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowds at the beach, Santa Monica, 1934

Crowds at the Salt Water Carnival, Santa Monica Beach, 1941

Description:
Photograph of crowds at a swim meet on Santa Monica Beach. Spectators are viewed standing along the pier in the background, while additional attendees are seated and laying in the sands at foreground. Several onlookers at ground level appear to be watching a young man with a long board (seen at left near the pillars). Photographed at the Salt Water Carnival, sponsored by Santa Monica Junior College.
Date:
May 24, 1941
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Crowds at the Salt Water Carnival, Santa Monica Beach, 1941

Elizabeth West, Chester Schmitz, Frances West and Irene Schmitz sit in front of a beach umbrella, Santa Monica, [about 1915]

Description:
Per the negative sleeve caption, this photograph was taken in 1910, the same year that Chester Schmitz was born. He looks considerably older than that, maybe about 5 or 6, in this photograph. The other children also look older than what their age would be in 1910. It is more likely that this image was taken around 1915.
Date:
[circa 1915]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Elizabeth West, Chester Schmitz, Frances West and Irene Schmitz sit in front of a beach umbrella, Santa Monica, [about 1915]

Eugene d’Orange dealing playing cards on the beach, Santa Monica, 1931

Description:
Photograph of Eugene d’Orange, Scotch-Irish poet and artist, lying on the sand with three others. Seen clockwise from top: Eugene d’Orange; an unidentified female wearing a cap; Valeska Radd and June Diebold. Here, d'Orange is viewed dealing from a deck of playing cards that have been laid out at center. The cards were probably used to tell the ladies' fortunes.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Eugene d’Orange dealing playing cards on the beach, Santa Monica, 1931

Eugene d'Orange telling June Diebold and Valeska Radd their fortunes, Santa Monica, 1931

Description:
Photograph of Eugene d’Orange, wearing a keffiyeh and agal, with Valeska Radd (standing, also wearing a keffiyeh) and June Diebold. Eugene d’Orange is viewed writing in a tray of sand. Both women wear similar bathing suits with patches on the chest. Miss Radd’s patch reads: “Roger Cornells Athletic Girls;” “Colton” is stitched to the suit at the hip. Miss Diebold’s patch reads: “A Roger Co[rnell] Athlete.” The trio are seated and standing on the sands of a Santa Monica Beach, with additional beach goers and the coastline on view in background.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Eugene d'Orange telling June Diebold and Valeska Radd their fortunes, Santa Monica, 1931

Eugene d'Orange telling Valeska Radd and June Diebold their fortunes, Santa Monica, 1931

Description:
Photograph of Eugene d’Orange, wearing a keffiyeh and agal, with Valeska Radd (at left, also wearing a keffiyeh) and June Diebold. Eugene d’Orange is viewed writing in a tray of sand. Both women wear similar bathing suits with related patches on the chest. Miss Diebold’s patch reads: “A Roger C[ornell] Athlete.” The trio is seated on the sands of a Santa Monica Beach, with additional beachgoers and the coastline on view in background.
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Eugene d'Orange telling Valeska Radd and June Diebold their fortunes, Santa Monica, 1931

Evelyn Most on the beach with longboard, Santa Monica, 1944

Description:
Photograph of Evelyn Most wearing a two-piece bathing suit on a Santa Monica beach. Most holds a surfboard in on hand and waves with the other. Seen background left: Breakers Beach Club (partial view), the Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar. at background right: the Santa Monica Pier.
Date:
August 1944
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Evelyn Most on the beach with longboard, Santa Monica, 1944

Girls play on a swings with the North Beach Bath House at the right, Santa Monica, about 1895

Description:
Girls play on a swings with the North Beach Bath House at the right. The girls wears hats and bonnets. There are water towers on the cliffs above. Men sit on the wooden fence by the bathhouse. At the left edge of the negative, there is a black line and on the other side there is a bit of what may be another image.
Date:
about 1895
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Girls play on a swings with the North Beach Bath House at the right, Santa Monica, about 1895

Girls wade through the surf at North Beach, Santa Monica, about 1895

Description:
Photograph of three girls wading through the surf at North Beach in Santa Monica. Churned up sand stretches across the foreground. In the distance, ocean waves roll to the shore, approaching the camera. Three girls walk through the surf in the near distance. All hike up their skirts and walk towards the right. The tallest girl stands leftmost and the shortest is rightmost. Further back, other beach goers enter the image along the left frame.
Date:
[circa 1895]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
Girls wade through the surf at North Beach, Santa Monica, about 1895

Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Description:
The negative sleeve references a convention of the California State Elks Association, held September 1951. Santa Monica served as host city. The host selection was announced at the Santa Monica Elks Lodge 906, and was noted in the article, "Santa Monica Chosen for Elks Convention," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1951: 14.
Date:
1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Description:
The negative sleeve references a convention of the California State Elks Association, held September 1951. Santa Monica served as host city. The host selection was announced at the Santa Monica Elks Lodge 906, and was noted in the article, "Santa Monica Chosen for Elks Convention," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1951: 14.
Date:
1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Description:
Photomontage image of Jean Moorhead riding the waves on a Santa Monica beach. A cutout of Moorhead, wearing a stripped bathing suit, posing as if riding a surfboard (actually an ironing board) has been superimposed onto a photograph of a Santa Monica beach complete with other surfers, swimmers and sunbathers. Prominently displayed in the background are the Breakers Beach Club, Edgewater Beach Club, and Hotel Casa Del Mar.
Date:
1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

Description:
The negative sleeve references a convention of the California State Elks Association, held September 1951. Santa Monica served as host city. The host selection was announced at the Santa Monica Elks Lodge 906, and was noted in the article, "Santa Monica Chosen for Elks Convention," Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 1951: 14.
Date:
1951
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Jean Moorhead surfing at the Elks convention, composite photograph, Santa Monica, 1951

John Duvall and Mary Haas on the beach with the camera obscura in the background, Santa Monica, about 1895

Description:
John Duvall and Mary Haas on the beach with the camera obscura in the background. Mary's back is to the camera and she wears a dress with a white collar. Her hair is up and she wears a hat. John is in a bathing suit and has his hands on his hips. There are other people on the beach. Some of the men are in bathing suits and some wear suits and hats.
Date:
about 1895
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:
West (H. H.) Collection
John Duvall and Mary Haas on the beach with the camera obscura in the background, Santa Monica, about 1895