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

Description:: P. H. Philbin, of Chicago, a former owner of the Sorrento Beach Club building, had planned a 12-story apartment building on the site in 1953. The project included utilizing the massive concrete Sorrento Beach Club structure which had been abandoned in an unfinished state. The project was controversial, as some property owners felt that it would mar the beauty of the Santa Monica Palisades Park.
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is a view of the back of the Sorrento Beach Club taken from the Palisade Park cliffs above. Three men can be seen on the roof, each holding wooden beams. The beach and ocean can be seen in the background.
Date:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of dancer Leonora Preston posing in first arabesque position and holding a scarf at the beach, likely Santa Monica. She poses here, standing on the shore, wearing a two piece bathing suit. Her suit has graph lines and a flower pattern on it. Her hair is in a ponytail. A piece of cloth flows behind her torso, its ends held in her hands.
Date:: October 4, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of dancer Leonora Preston posing with her working leg in retiré devantat the beach, likely Santa Monica. She is standing on the shore, wearing a two piece bathing suit. Her suit has graph lines and a flower pattern on it. Her hair is in a ponytail.
Date:: October 4, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of Leonora Preston at the beach, likely Santa Monica. Leonora was a dancer. She poses here, standing on rocks on the shore, wearing a two piece bathing suit. Her suit has graph lines and a flower pattern on it. Her hair is in a ponytail. She stands smiling, hands on hips.
Date:: October 4, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of dancer Leonora Preston performing a grand jeté at the beach, likely Santa Monica. She is wearing a two piece bathing suit. Her suit has graph lines and a flower pattern on it.
Date:: October 4, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of dancer Leonora Preston performing a grand jeté at the beach, likely Santa Monica. She is wearing a two piece bathing suit. Her suit has graph lines and a flower pattern on it.
Date:: October 4, 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of Marjorie Duggan, walking along the shore, with her eyes half closed. She wears a blouse, bloomers, and a scarf wrapped around her head.
Date:: November 12, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: This image is of Marjorie Duggan, walking along the shore, with her eyes half closed. She wears a blouse, bloomers, and a scarf wrapped around her head.
Date:: November 12, 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: The Castle del Mar Beach Club is a beachside resort. It was built in a Neo-Renaissance-Mediterranean Revival style in 1926.
Date:: May 19, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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