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De Palma in Mercedes wins Vanderbilt Cup Race 1914

De Palma in Mercedes wins Vanderbilt Cup Race 1914

Photo shows Ralph De Palma (1882-1956), an Italian-American race car driver who was the winner of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup auto race which was held in Santa Monica, California, on February 26. (Source: Flickr C... More

Aerial view of Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Aerial view of Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Pi... More

Storefront on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California

Storefront on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Panoramic view of Ocean Park, Cal.

Panoramic view of Ocean Park, Cal.

J192190 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. Rice & Sons; May 1914. Copyright claimant's address: Los Angeles.

Storefront, Santa Monica, California

Storefront, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Ocean Park Pier fire, Santa Monica, California

Ocean Park Pier fire, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Santa Monica Place Shopping Center in Los Angeles, California

Santa Monica Place Shopping Center in Los Angeles, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Sun goes down, fun goes up at the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Sun goes down, fun goes up at the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, Cal...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2017; (DLC... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Early automobiles - Ralph de Palma

Early automobiles - Ralph de Palma

Photo shows Ralph De Palma (1882-1956), an Italian-American race car driver who was the winner of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup auto race which was held in Santa Monica, California, on February 26. (Source: Flickr Co... More

Aerial view of Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Aerial view of Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Neon sign at the Buffalo Club, a sophisticated restaurant where movie stars and famous people dine. Santa Monica, California

Neon sign at the Buffalo Club, a sophisticated restaurant where movie ...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Dusk skyline view of Los Angeles, California, looking west over the Interstate 10 (Santa Monica) freeway toward the setting sun

Dusk skyline view of Los Angeles, California, looking west over the In...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica, California. Italian-Americans at work on bombers at the Douglas Aircraft plant

Santa Monica, California. Italian-Americans at work on bombers at the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parkhurst Building, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California

Parkhurst Building, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Ferris wheel at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Nevada Avenue, Santa Monica, Cal, California, 19th century sterescope card.

Nevada Avenue, Santa Monica, Cal, California, 19th century sterescope ...

No. 3725. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, California, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Santa Monica Bay, gelatin silver print

Santa Monica Bay, gelatin silver print

H110751 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; W. D. Lambert; May 19, 1908. Copyright claimant's address: Long Beach, Cal.

Car dealership, Santa Monica, California

Car dealership, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Auto related. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America phot... More

Jack in the Box sign, Santa Monica, California

Jack in the Box sign, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Food. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph arc... More

Carousel, Santa Monica, California

Carousel, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Scene along old U.S. highway 66 in Mohave County, Arizona. Much of Rou...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

California, Santa Monica intersection

California, Santa Monica intersection

Photograph shows the intersection of Third Street and Santa Monica Boulevard looking north. The old City Hall building is visible down the street. Title and digital scan supplied by donor. Forms part of: Albert... More

This poster urging tool conservation features the "Tokyo Kid," a figure made familiar to the employees of Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica, California in many of the plant posters

This poster urging tool conservation features the "Tokyo Kid," a figur...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cummings Buick, 15th Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California

Cummings Buick, 15th Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Auto related. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America phot... More

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The ... More

Swingers Restaurant on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, California

Swingers Restaurant on Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica, California

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Santa Monica roller coaster, California

Santa Monica roller coaster, California

Title and digital scan supplied by donor. Forms part of: Albert M. Price Panoramic Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California

Sign "Pacific Park" at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Californ...

The Pier, a large double-jointed pier located at the foot of Colorado Avenue is a prominent, 100-year-old landmark. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Souvenir stores in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through te 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Souvenir stores in Seligman, Arizona, along old U.S. highway 66. Much ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

[Aerial view north of Santa Monica Boulevard, between Beverly Hills and Westwood]

[Aerial view north of Santa Monica Boulevard, between Beverly Hills an...

J295404 U.S. Copyright Office. Not to be published or reproduced without permission of Spence Airplane Photos. Copyright by Spence Airplane Photos; actual copyright date is 1928.

Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, Caifornia

Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica, Caifornia

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... More

Stretches of old U.S. highway 66 such as this in Mohave County, Arizona, are often deserted. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through th 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs

Stretches of old U.S. highway 66 such as this in Mohave County, Arizon...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Brief sketch of "Uncle" Dan Turner

Brief sketch of "Uncle" Dan Turner

Postcard shows full length portrait of Dan Turner seated before a backdrop of the ocean, holding a rifle. Image is accompanied by a brief biography. F44728 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1906, by Daniel Turn... More

Mercedes (De Palma) coming through Vanderbilt Race

Mercedes (De Palma) coming through Vanderbilt Race

Photo shows Ralph De Palma (1882-1956), an Italian-American race car driver who was the winner of the 1914 Vanderbilt Cup auto race which was held in Santa Monica, California, on February 26. (Source: Flickr Co... More

Baer's Market, Santa Monica, California

Baer's Market, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Route 66 neon sign, part of a display of vintage and neon from historic U.S. Route 66 on the median strip of Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California

Route 66 neon sign, part of a display of vintage and neon from histori...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. The display of three large-scale signs on the boulevard and one at Plummer Park was co-sponsored by the city and the Museum of Neon Art. Credit line: The ... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

[Cal. - Los Angeles County: bird's-eye views of Los Angeles, looking toward ocean; Wilmington, looking toward Sierra Madres; and Santa Monica, looking South to ocean and Santa Monica Mts.]

[Cal. - Los Angeles County: bird's-eye views of Los Angeles, looking t...

3 lithographs on 1 page of atlas, copyrighted by E.S. Glover. In G&M Division. Reference copy may be available in LOT4390-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Mendota Block, front, Main Street, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California

Mendota Block, front, Main Street, Ocean Park, Santa Monica, Californi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies categories: General commercial; Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1). Credit line: John Margolies ... More

Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library ... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Marion Davies Estate, Fence & Bulkhead, 415 Pacific Coast Highway, San...

Significance: The Marion Davies Estate was constructed in 1929 from the designs of renowned architect Julia Morgan. The original development, then called Ocean House, was built by William Randolph Hearst and h... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Santa Monica City Jail, 1685 Main Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles Co...

Significance: The Santa Monica City Hall, including the jail facility in the northwest wing, was designed in a PWA Moderne style popular in the 1930s by prominent Los Angeles architects, Joseph M. Estep and Don... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, CA

Horatio West Court Apartments, 140 Hollister Street, Santa Monica, Los...

Significance: An early example of social housing in the International style. In the second story living rooms, Gill used continuous windows a hallmark of the International style for the first time in his c... More

Going through the tunnel /. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Going through the tunnel /. 19th century, Library of Congress collecti...

"On the way to Santa Monica, Cal., the train approaches, runs through and emerges from a tunnel. Train passes in opposite direction. Camera is at front end of train, giving a very novel view. 100 feet"--Edison ... More

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