Subject: Beaches--California--Santa Monica / Location: California--Santa Monica - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lizzie Chandler and Nettie Davies stand in the sand. Nettie wears a hat and Lizzie wears a white scarf. There are people walking behind them on the wooden boardwalk. Other people sit at the right. There is a covered patio in the background and there is a building in the background at the right. A sign above the patio reads, "restaurant."
Date:: July 4, 1901
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Girls play on a seesaw on the beach. The girls wear hats and bonnets. A woman walks with a girl on the path beyond the seesaw, and a man stands at the left. There are cliffs in the background and people stand at the top of one at the right. There are trees at the top, as well.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Per the negative sleeve caption, this photograph was taken in 1910, the same year that Chester Schmitz was born. He looks considerably older than that, maybe about 5 or 6, in this photograph. The other children also look older than what their age would be in 1910. It is more likely that this image was taken around 1915.
Date:: [circa 1915]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: John Duvall and Mary Haas on the beach with the camera obscura in the background. Mary's back is to the camera and she wears a dress with a white collar. Her hair is up and she wears a hat. John is in a bathing suit and has his hands on his hips. There are other people on the beach. Some of the men are in bathing suits and some wear suits and hats.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Woman and a child stand in the surf. She holds her dress at her knees and wears a hat. There is a pier at the right with people standing on it. The beach is in the foreground.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Men play in the surf with the pier in the background. They wear bathing suits. There are other people in the water in the distance.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Based on the dates, the boy is more likely Lester Shaw rather than Romayne. Lester and Romayne were William and Josie Shaw's sons. Josie Shaw was Mertie Whitaker's sister and Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Date:: July 4, 1901
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: People walk on the boardwalk in front of the North Beach Bath House. A girl wearing a bonnet holds hands with a man in a suit. People sit on the beach in the background. A wooden structure has the words, "leopard seal" printed on it. "North Beach Bath House" is printed on the building at the right. There are American flags on the beach and others at the top of the bathhouse.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Man operates a steam engine on the beach. He wears a hat and holds his hands up to the engine. Steam comes out of the top. There are stairs above the beach. At the right, Eckert & Hopf's restaurant is visible.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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