Subject: People / Genre: black-and-white photographs / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: William Mulholland (possibly), with a mustache and wearing a suit and hat, standing on a dirt driveway lined by large pepper (?) trees, with a Victorian house at the end of the drive
Date:: [between 1898 and 1943]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The patio at the adobe Guajome Ranch House. A fountain is in the middle of the garden.
Date:: [circa 1901-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Photograph of a La Margner (La Marne?) rose-covered cottage belonging to Mrs. Barclay at 747 Spring Street. The house is nearly hidden behind the roses, but the steps to the front door and a porch with a lattice railing are visible.
Date:: 1898
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: View into a mountain ravine with utility poles and where a water pipe system appears to be under construction. Two men are in the ravine; one is mostly hidden by a utility pole and the other is possibly William Mulholland. The man is standing with his hands on his hips, is wearing dark pants, a dark open vest, a light shirt and neck tie and a wide-brimmed hat. A parked car is on the left.
Date:: [between 1905 and 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: The campaign headquarters for Frank Merriam, former state senator and governor of California. Merriam, Lieutenant Governor at the time, was sworn in as governor in 1934 after the sudden death of Governor James Rolph. He ran successfully against Upton Sinclair in the general elections the following November.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Upper photo: view of a wide dirt road on the face of a cliff in Santa Monica's Palisades Park, 1910-1920. The road is at center and leads from the top of the cliffs at left down to the beach at right. It is lined with a rustic eucalyptus branch fence and several large plants. A tall rock formation can be seen towards the bottom of the road at right. The beach is visible in the distance at center and right. Several tall mountains form a range in the background.
Date:: [circa 1905-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

Description:: Reported in "The street that was: Rainbow Ave. didn't die, just slid away," Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 1969: C1.
Date:: March 3, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Image that accompanies caption in print is alternate photograph present on the same negative in file.
Date:: circa March 3, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Photo appears with the article "Creep testing," Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1969: B11.
Date:: March 6, 1969
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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