Resource Type: still image / Location: California--Santa Monica - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Color photograph of Bo Diddley (with his trademark rectangular guitar) and an unidentified guitarist performing in front of a banner for the 14th Annual Santa Monica Pier Twilight Dance Series held on July 9, 1998.
Date:: July 9, 1998
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arkatov, James, $d1920-
Collection:: Arkatov (James) collection

Description:: Color photograph of American rock and blues musician Bo Diddley (playing his trademark rectangular guitar) and an unidentified drummer and guitarist performing in front of a banner for the 14th Annual Santa Monica Pier Twilight Dance Series.
Date:: July 9, 2009
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arkatov, James, $d1920-
Collection:: Arkatov (James) collection

Description:: Black and white photograph of Bo Diddley (playing his trademark rectangular guitar) and an unidentified guitarist performing in front of a banner for the 14th Annual Santa Monica Pier Twilight Dance Series.
Date:: July 9, 1998
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arkatov, James, $d1920-
Collection:: Arkatov (James) collection

Description:: Color photograph of Bo Diddley (playing his trademark rectangular guitar) and other unidentified musicians performing in front of a banner for the 14th Annual Santa Monica Pier Twilight Dance Series held on July 9, 1998.
Date:: July 9, 1998
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arkatov, James, $d1920-
Collection:: Arkatov (James) collection

Description:: Color photograph of American rock and blues musician Bo Diddley and an unidentified guitarist performing in front of a banner for the 14th Annual Santa Monica Pier Twilight Dance Festival.
Date:: July 9, 2009
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Arkatov, James, $d1920-
Collection:: Arkatov (James) collection

Description:: An out-of-focus photograph, from left to right, of George Corwin and Robert T. Brain standing on the pier at Ocean Park with their fishing gear. The pier stretches along the bottom edge of the image on a slight upward angle from left to right. In the foreground, a basket, camera and some cans sit on the pier at center. Both George Corwin and Robert T. Brain stand along the wooden rail of the pier. George Corwin stands at left and looks to the camera while he holds a fishing rod. Robert T. Brain stands at right and looks to the camera as well. An unidentified man stands behind and to the right of Robert. His back is to the camera as he looks over the edge of the pier. In the background, the ocean extends behind them at left and center and the coastline stretches into the distance at right.
Date:: [circa 1905]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph taken aboard an unidentified battleship visited by H. H. West and others just off-shore in Santa Monica. A man wearing a hat and with a hand in his pocket peeks into the frame from the left. Two large gun turrets are behind him and sit at the center of the photograph. To either side of that, there are two more, smaller, turrets. Atop the 2 large turrets at center, there is the ship's bridge. Visitors stand at a railing on top of the bridge amidst large guns that face outward to the right and left. On the deck, a uniformed naval serviceman approaches the large gun turrets from the left. Two women in dresses stand to the right of the large turrets. On the far right, a lifeboat hangs off the side of the ship.
Date:: about 1900
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of Ellen Lorene "Pinkie" Lemberger, Mertie Whitaker and Nella West standing on a pier at Santa Monica's North Beach while holding onto their hats. The pier spans the foreground and stretches back on an upward angle from the lower right corner towards the left. The women stand in a semi-circle on the pier, left-of-center. Pinkie Lemberger stands at left and faces towards the right. She places a hand to her hat. Mertie Whitaker stands at center and further back from the camera. She smiles to the camera as she places both hands behind her head. At right, Nella West stands in profile, facing left. She too raises a hand to her hat. The beach on the south side of the pier sprawls behind them in the distance at right. Nearest to camera, ocean waves roll onto the shore. The beach stretches horizontally across the image at right. Sitting back from the water at right, the Arcadia Hotel stands.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Port Los Angeles was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad and opened in 1894. It was also known as the Long Wharf and the Mile Long Pier.
Date:: About 1898
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: The negative sleeve indicates there are three negatives in this series, but there are, in fact, only two.
Date:: July 4, 1901
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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