Subject: Lifestyle and Culture / Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: Santa Monica (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: California citizens carrying a huge state flag in the California Admission Day parade, held in Santa Monica. The parade, led by Governor Merriam, was a feature event of the three day Admission Day celebration, which commemorated the 87th anniversary of the day California became a state
Date:: September 9, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women quilting at the Unemployed Citizens' League of Santa Monica, a localized group of self-sustaining and self-respecting people. Many cooperatives like this one emerged in California during the 1930s, specifically in the Los Angeles - Orange County area
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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:: Exterior view of the Santa Monica Public Library. The Main Library, built in 1904 with Carnegie funds, was remodeled in 1927 by architect E. J. Baume in a Spanish-style design
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View towards two men striding down wide walkway in Palisades Park, with lawns and trees and palms in planting beds on either side, a rustic eucalyptus branch fence along the cliff edge on the right with the ocean beyond and the amusement pier in the far distance.
Date:: [circa 1915-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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

Description:: Exterior view of the former Elks Temple, or Lodge, located at the southeast corner of Main St. and Pier Ave. in Santa Monica. The letters "BPOE" along the cornice of each visible side of the building stand for: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The BPOE is an American fraternal order and social club founded in 1868.
Date:: [between 1898 and 1934]
1898/1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View towards Santa Monica beach in front of a pergola-covered brick walkway (in Crescent Bay Park between Blicknell Ave., Bay St. and Ocean Front Walk). The walkway consists of colonnade supporting a roof of wooden beams.
Date:: [circa 1915-1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Taylor, photographer
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club building was completed in 1914 and is located at 1210 Fourth Street since 1914.The architect of the clubhouse was Henry C. Hollwedel.
Date:: [circa 1914-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The Castle del Mar Beach Club is a beachside resort. It was built in a Neo-Renaissance-Mediterranean Revival style in 1926. Several patios with awnings are visible along with a labeled life boat.
Date:: [circa 1926-1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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