Genre: black-and-white photographs / Location: California--Malibu - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph, from left to right, of H. H. West, Jr. and Harold Johnston standing on the beach near Las Flores Canyon in Malibu. Both boys stand atop rocks on the shore and look towards the camera. A small wave crashes to shore right behind them. The ocean expands into the distance.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of Mertie West standing on the beach near Las Fores Canyon in Malibu and smiling to the camera. She stands at center and faces towards the left. Her head is turned towards the camera as she smiles. Four beachgoers stand behind her at left. Umbrellas stand on the beach in the distance at right. Houses can be seen on the hill in the far distance at right.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph, from front to back, of Mertie West and Josie Shaw at the Morgan's beach cabin near Las Flores Canyon in Malibu. At center, Mertie kneels in the sand outside the cabin (right). She is in profile, facing left and has one hand to her hip and the other to her head. Directly behind her, Josie Shaw sits in beach chair. She leans her body over towards the left and is visible to the left of Mertie. A woman and man (both in partial view) stand and sit, respectively, nearby at right. Three cabins line the beach and cascade towards the horizon. A clump of umbrellas stand to the left of the furthest-most cabin in the distance.
Date:: [circa 1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Mawby triplets, Claudine, Claudette, and Angella, about age 7 or 8, in a play pirate ship, wearing fur-trimmed dresses, knit caps, white boots, and white gloves. The image is photographed on top of Christmas wrapping paper.
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Claudine, Claudette, and Angella Mawby, about age 7 or 8, wearing briefs, under large umbrella at edge of surf, one standing holding doll and umbrella pole, two seated on sand with another doll, with ocean in background
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View from hill towards cars on the Pacific Coast Highway and coast in the area of the Rancho Malibu la Costa development.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Claudine, Claudette, and Angella Mawby, about age 7 or 8, wearing briefs, on sand at edge of surf, pulling a rowboat by its rope, with ocean in background
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: View from coastal hill towards house under construction, the Pacific Coast Highway and beach far below in the area of the Rancho Malibu la Costa development. A dirt road is visible below the house.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a 13,316-acre Spanish land grant given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé Tapia. In 1892 Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rindge, purchased the rancho. In 1926, the Marblehead Land Company, formed by May Knight Rindge, made a $6 million deal with Harold G. Ferguson to develop the La Costa area (between Las Flores Canyon and Carbon Canyon), but that deal fell apart when Ferguson was sentenced to jail for securities fraud in 1931. Ferguson laid out the development with street names as they remain today: Rambla Vista, Paseo Serra, etc. It took until the mid 1930's for development of the area to begin in earnest.
Date:: [circa 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description:: Large stone and three small stones with several pecten (scallop shell) fossils found near Saddle Peak
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

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