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99 steps, Santa Monica Beach

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Description: View depicts two couples seated in front of small wooden cabin on the beach in Santa Monica, California, directly in front of cliffs and wooden stairs, known as the "Ninety-nine steps" that lead down to the beach from the street above.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1885
Call number: photPF 24507
Creator: Morrison, E. G (-1888)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Almagre Books, 2000.
Dimensions: image 4 1/2 x 7 3/8 in., mount 5 x 8 in.

Santa Monica Beach, California

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Image of the beach in Santa Monica, California, with beachgoers and buildings visible, including Michael Duffy's bath house visible in the background at the foot of the stairs along the Palisades cliffs.

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Original 99 steps, Santa Monica

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Image of people, including a man in a bathing suit and children, standing on the original 99 steps leading to the beach, located at the end of Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, California. "F.C. McKinnie" painted on sign at top of steps, possibly an advertisement. McKinnie had a drug store in Santa Monica.

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Looking from Santa Monica Beach

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View depicts the Santa Monica Bathhouse as seen from the bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California. Detailed view of the bathhouse buildings and the cabanas on water's edge.

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View South from 99 Steps

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View showing shacks and cottages along the beach in Santa Monica California, as seen from the Palisades bluffs, with the "99 steps" wooden staircase leading down from the bluff, the Arcadia Hotel, and the remains of the Los Angeles and Independence railroad wharf in the distance.

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Image of Sunset Trail from Linda Vista Park (present day Palisades Park) to Palisades Beach Road in Santa Monica, California. A sign hangs from a rustic wooden archway that reads "Sunset Trail to Palisades Beach Road." The 99 Steps can be seen over the Beach Road (later part of Pacific Coast Highway) at left and the Long Wharf is visible in the distance.

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Visitors in front of cottage on the beach, Santa Monica

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A group of four men and four women are posed in front of a wooden shack or cottage on the beach, with other beach shacks in the background, in Santa Monica, California. One man sits in a wicker chair, and curtains can be seen in the window. A pier is in the distance, and the bluffs are on the left.

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99 steps, Santa Monica Beach

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