Subject: Beaches--California--Long Beach - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of Guy West's dog, Rover, sitting on the beach at Naples. He sits at center on the sand. A dead bird lies on the ground to the right of him. Waves crash along the shore in the background.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: In the foreground, people crowd the beach on the north side of Silver Spray Pleasure Pier in Long Beach. Children on the beach carry or fly kites. From the middle of the crowd, a kite with a long tail sails over the beach at center. Across the kite, text reads, "LONG BEACH." The crowd extends back towards the pier, which stretches across the background. Along the side of the pier, a sign reads, "SILVER SP[...] PLEASURE PIER." A roller coaster sits behind it on the pier. About a couple dozen kites are visible sailing through the sky in the distance.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Young man in bathing suit and hat, standing on sand at edge of walkway, handing something, possibly an ice cream cone, up to a young woman in bathing suit and hat, seated with 4 other young women in bathing suits on concrete wall, with crowd of people, mostly street clothes and hats, seated on sand at base of wall and standing on walkway leaning on wall, with open boat hanging from wooden supports at left, uniformed lifeguard standing at right, buildings in background, smokestack in distance
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: A fishing boat, Satrania, leans to one side on the shore in Long Beach. Children are seen pushing a rowboat in its direction.
Date:: March, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A manicured lawn stretches across the bottom half of the image. Beyond it, spectators line the far side of the beach's strand walkway. They stand with their backs towards the camera. More people with kites crowd the beach. The ocean extends across the background. A pier juts into the water in the distance at left.
Date:: [between 1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman in bathing suit and head scarf, posing seated in shallow surf, with 5 people wading in shallow water in right background, beach and buildings in left background
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman in dress, fur stole, hat, shoes, and stockings, seated on sand, holding purse, with dog with head down next to her, 2 men in suits, backs to camera, walking at center and right, with umbrellas, canopies, and other people partially visible in background
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Two women, in dresses, hats, shoes, and stockings, seated in folding chairs with attached striped awnings, with children playing at left, man in bathing suit seated on sand at right, umbrella, boardwalk, people on benches, and shops in background
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Crowd of about 300 people on beach, most in bathing suits, with many umbrellas in sand, with rock wall in foreground, buildings in background, under cloudy sky
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman in bathing suit and head scarf, smiling, standing with arms raised holding surfboard behind her, on beach with ocean and waders in background. Surfboard reads, in stylized angular lettering, HAZED
Date:: 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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