Genre: cellulose nitrate film / Location: California--Santa Monica - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Photograph of the interior of the North Beach bath house in Santa Monica. People swim and play in a pool that occupies the foreground. Along the left edge of the image, a wooden support beam arches upward as it extends out-of-frame at top. A hand in motion appears to reach out towards the right from behind the beam. Above the pool, wooden arches stand equally spaced to support a pitched roof. Baskets of flowers hang from rafters over the pool. Semi-circular windows line the wall on the right side of the pool and a walkway stretches across the far end of the pool.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of several beachgoers standing in the surf and sitting on the beach at North Beach in Santa Monica. The shore stretches across the foreground on a slight upward angle from left to right. Waves roll onto the shore towards the camera. Two children sit with their backs to the camera at left. Another person stands with their back to camera just beyond and to the right of them. At the surf, about 3 women stand in or near the water with their backs to the camera. Another woman sits on the beach at far right near the surf. A few people appear to play in the water in the distance at left. Along the right edge and in the far distance, the end of a pier juts into the frame.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: People on the beach with the camera obscura in the background. Many of the men wear bathing suits, though some wear suits and hats. There are umbrellas throughout. There are mountains in the distance. People stand on the balcony of the camera obscura.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: People on the beach and by the camera obscura. There is an umbrella in the foreground. Two men stand wearing suits at the right. There are people in bathing suits on the beach, as well as men in suits and women in dresses. A man and a woman stand at the top of the stairs of the camera obscura.
Date:: about 1895
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: People on the beach with a pier in the background. There are children playing in the surf. A woman stands on the sand wearing a hat. Her back is to the camera and she has gathered her dress at her knees. A boy sits in the sand at her right. There is a wooden pier with tall stakes in the sand at the right.
Date:: about 1895
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:: Josie Shaw was Mertie Whitaker's sister. William Shaw was Josie's husband, and Lester and Romayne Shaw were their sons. Abraham and Mary Whitaker were Mertie and Josie's parents. Agnes Hawley later became Forrest Whitaker's wife. Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Date:: July 4, 1901
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Josie Shaw was Mertie Whitaker's sister. William Shaw was Josie's husband, and Lester and Romayne Shaw were their sons. Abraham and Mary Whitaker were Mertie and Josie's parents. Agnes Hawley later became Forrest Whitaker's wife. Mertie Whitaker became H. H. West's second wife in the 1920's.
Date:: July 4, 1901
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Pinkie Lemberger (Ellen Lorene Lemberger Warder) was H. H. West’s first cousin.
Date:: [circa 1900 or 1901]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

Description:: Photograph of three girls wading through the surf at North Beach in Santa Monica. Churned up sand stretches across the foreground. In the distance, ocean waves roll to the shore, approaching the camera. Three girls walk through the surf in the near distance. All hike up their skirts and walk towards the right. The tallest girl stands leftmost and the shortest is rightmost. Further back, other beach goers enter the image along the left frame.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958
Collection:: West (H. H.) Collection

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