Men play in the surf with the pier in the background, Santa Monica, about 1895

Item Overview

Title

Men play in the surf with the pier in the background, Santa Monica, about 1895

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

about 1895

Date

1895

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Men play in the surf with the pier in the background. Two men in the foreground stand with their backs to the camera. They all wear bathing suits. A man at the left does a handstand and is partially obscured by another man.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1231. Santa Monica, California about 1895. 1. 2. 3. 4. Four view of the old North Beach Bath House. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Six views of the old Santa Monica pier, and beach in the vicinity. 11. 12. Two views of the children's play ground and teeter board. 13. A steam engine on the beach but what it is doing I do not recall. Note the sign "Eckert & Hoff [sic] Restaurant" on 13. A great resort in those days. Many a fish dinner I ate in there. Also we used to buy our clams for bait there when we went to Port Los Angeles to fish. Also ran a big bar. 13 films.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Location

California--Santa Monica

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Oceans
Beaches--California--Santa Monica