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Long Beach, Cal., July 1909

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Description: View of the Long Beach pier and municipal auditorium (at the beach, at beginning of pier), showing crowds of people walking among buildings, sitting on the beach, and swimming in the ocean. A sign on a building at right says "Lunching Pavilion."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: July 1909
Call number: photCL 555
Creator: Marquez, Ernest (1924-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased in part by the Library Collectors' Council from Ernest Marquez, January 2014.

Annual "Bathing Girl Parade." Balboa Beach, Cal. June 20, 1920

Visual Materials

A line of young women wearing bathing suits, shoes, and stockings are standing in front of the steps of the Pavilion at Balboa Beach. Some are holding banners that say "Spalding Maid." A sign on a building says "Balboa [illegible] and Palisades Tavern." Spectators are in the background, and a building with a sign for Balboa Post Office.

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Annual "Bathing Girl Parade." Balboa Beach, Cal. June 20, 1920

Visual Materials

A line of young women posed with hands on hips of next person, wearing bathing suits, shoes and stockings are standing in front of the steps of the Pavilion at Balboa Beach. Some are holding banners that say "Spalding Maid" and spectators are in the background.

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Beach and pier, Long Beach. July 4, 1924

Visual Materials

A panoramic view of the Fourth of July crowd at the beach in Long Beach. There are hundreds of people, in a mixture of suits and dresses and bathing suits. Many of the people are sitting beneath beach umbrellas or shaded beach chairs, while a couple dozen are in the water. The Pike, an amusement park with shops and rides, is on the far left, and the end of a roller coaster extends over the water at the right edge. In the distance a pier extends into the water, with the Sun pavilion at the far end. A white stamp in the bottom left corner reads "Pettit's Studio ; commercial photographers ; 1416 W. Pico Blvd. ; Richmond 8534 ; Los Angeles 15, Calif." Another white stamp below that reads "Jul 4 1924".

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Beach and Pike, Long Beach. 1923

Visual Materials

A slightly elevated view, facing east, of the beach, Pike, pavilion, and pier in Long Beach. There are hundreds of people on the the beach, some dressed in suits and dresses, others in bathing suits, and several people in the water as well. A rowboat is heading toward the shore, and a little ways away a group of men are holding a rope that goes into the water. There is a row of stores, shops, and booths along both sides of the boardwalk on the left which, together with the rides, made up the Pike amusement park. In the background, the pier extends out into the ocean, with the Sun Pavilion at the southernmost end. There is a mechanical ride on the far right, next to the lunching pavilion.

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Redondo, Cal

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Image of men walking on the Redondo wharf, with a schooner docked at right and steamer in the distance. This appears to be Wharf no. 2, which was built in 1894.

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Beach, Long Beach. July 4, 1923

Visual Materials

A panoramic view of the Fourth of July crowd at the beach in Long Beach. There are hundreds of people, in a mixture of suits and dresses, and bathing suits. Many of the people are sitting beneath the dozens of beach umbrellas on the left side of the image. Beyond the umbrellas is the Pike, an amusement park with shops and rides, like the tall spiral slide in the background. Further in the distance, on the right, a pier extends into the water. Writing in white in the center of the image reads "Long Beach, Calif. - July 4th, 1923". Farther to the right is more writing in white which reads "Photo No. 268 ; The Aerograph Co. ; 1763 W. Vernon ; L.A. - Calif."

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Long Beach, Cal., July 1909

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