Subject: Beaches--California--Venice / Location: Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Upper photo: Sightseers strolling on the walkway between rows of buildings on the Venice Beach pier.
Date:: [circa 1915-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Lower photo: View of sunbathers on the beach in Venice. The wide, sandy beach runs from the foreground at left into the background at right. A multitude of people in bathing suits can be seen on the sand or in the water. Behind the beach in the background, several large beach club buildings and can be seen.
Date:: [between 1920 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Three postcard views of sunbathers at Venice beach. Two view show the beach crowded with sunbathers and umbrellas on the sand between the shore buildings and the water. One view shows a sparsely populated beach with the pier and roller coaster in the distance.
Date:: [circa 1920-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of sunbathers on the beach in front of the Santa Monica Athletic Club, view of sunbathers on the beach in Venice and view of the promenade along Venice Beach.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Twelve post card views of beaches in Topanga, Santa Monica and Venice, California, advertised as a set called "Snappy Snaps, Local California Views." Santa Monica views include Marion Davies' beach house, castle rock and the palisades cliffs. Venice Beach views show sunbathers. Castle rock was leveled in the mid 1950's and is now paved over.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: This photograph is similar to images appearing with the articles, "DETECTIVES INQUIRE INTO EVANGELIST'S DROWNING: Burns Operatives Enter Case While Searchers Vainly Seek Body of Aimee Semple McPherson," Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 1, and “FAITHFUL CLING TO WANING HOPE: Men and Women Followers of Mrs. McPherson Grouped on Sands at Venice Pray That Leader Will Return to Them,” Los Angeles Times, 20 May 1926: 2
Date:: [circa May 19, 1926]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: This photograph is very similar to another one that appears in the article, "Vast Throng Celebrates Holiday at Seashore, Beach Crowd Sets Record," Los Angeles Times, 5 Jul. 1929: A1.
Date:: July 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: This photograph appears with the article, "Vast Throng Celebrates Holiday at Seashore, Beach Crowd Sets Record," Los Angeles Times, 5 Jul. 1929: A1.
Date:: July 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Large crowd in front of the Ocean Park Bathhouse in Santa Monica, celebrating the Fourth of July holiday. View taken from the pier.
Date:: July 4, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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