Subject: Environment / Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Language: No linguistic content / Collection: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Encampment of families with parked cars, tents and shacks in an area of open land. A chalk board in front of one tent reads: "patented lands in tracts from..." and appears to list acreage and prices. A sign next to the tent reads: "John R. Doran, lots, leases, claims." Behind the tent is a shack with a sign that reads: Coca C[ola] sold...and a there is a large truck with a Coca Cola sigh painted on it in the background
Date:: [circa 1910-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View towards three popular early beach clubs: from left to right, the Breakers (under construction), Edgewater, and the Castle Del Mar Club (1910 Ocean Way).
Date:: [circa 1926-1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Bottom photo: view of Palisades Park showing a walkway lined by plants and trees including a palm tree, century plant.
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View of the Topanga and Pacific Palisades coast in Santa Monica Bay facing towards castle rock in the far distance. Beach houses line the shore with the Pacific Coast Highway and coastal slopes behind them. The Villa de Leon (Leon Kauffmann residence, 17948 Porto Marina Way) is visible at the top of a slope.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Birdseye view from Palisades Park towards Marion Davies' beach house on the shore of Santa Monica Bay in Santa Monica, with the beach visible beyond. Across the highway from the beach estate are parked cars, street railroad tracks, utility poles and the brush-covered base of the palisades cliff.
Date:: [circa 1930-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Two views of Las Flores Canyon and one view of beach houses and the Pacific Coast Highway along the Malibu coast near Las Flores Canyon.
Date:: [circa 1912]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Upper photo: View from the north towards of Castle Rock, the Pacific Coast Highway and cliffs. A car is parked on the sand near Castle Rock. Castle rock was leveled in the mid 1950's and is now paved over.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Upper photo: View of Castle Rock from the west. The large conical rock is at left, jutting out from a low sloping hillside. There is a sandy beach at the base of the rock at center, and the beach is covered with smaller rocks in front of Castle Rock. There is an especially big rock in the foreground at right. There are hills visible in the background at left, and the calm water of the ocean is visible at right. Castle rock was leveled in the mid 1950's and is now paved over.
Date:: [between 1920 and 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Three views of Las Flores Canyon, one showing a dirt road with a house on the left. One view of the Pacific Coast Highway probably near the entrance to Las Flores Canyon, with beach houses along the shoreline.
Date:: [circa 1912]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Two photographs of Topanga Canyon, located in the Santa Monica Mountains, and two views towards the San Fernando Valley from Topanga Road, with a wooden guard rail. An automobile is visible on the road in the upper left photograph.
Date:: [circa 1923-1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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