Beaches & Harbor
The coast. Santa Monica and Venice, the piers and the boardwalk, Muscle Beach, surfing, and the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach moving most of America's container traffic.
Part of Los Angeles
29 moments in this segment.
- - Long Wharf, California c. 1890s. Los Angeles, 1894. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Farmland and the Los Angeles River looking north from Elysian Park toward Mount Washingt…. Los Angeles, 1895. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Playa del Rey-1905-Playa del Rey. Los Angeles, 1905. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Detailed Geologic Section Through Olinda Oil Field. Identifier: bulletinofunited309eldr (find matches) Title: Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey--The Santa Clara Valley, Puente Hills and Los Angeles Oil Districts Year: 1907 (1900s) Authors: Eldridge, George Homans Arnold, Ralph Subjects: Publisher: Contributing Library: Clemson University Libraries Digitizi...
- - Development and electrical distribution of water power. Los Angeles Receiving Station Identifier: developmentelect00lynd (find matches) Title: Development and electrical distribution of water power Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Lyndon, Lamar, 1871- Subjects: Hydroelectric power plants Publisher: New York, Wiley Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor:...
- - Construction of the San Pedro government breakwater from shore. Los Angeles, 1908. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Globe Grain and Milling Company, rendering. Drawing of the Globe Grain & Milling Co. headquarters and warehouse, located at 907 E. 3rd Street, at S. Garey Street (left), in Los Angeles. Signs on the warehouse and distribution center promote Globe "A1" Mills Flour. This realistic drawing includes a streetcar traveling west on 3rd Street.
- - Dredging in the Los Angeles Harbor at Wilmington. Los Angeles, 1912. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - LA Aqueduct Opening2. building the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Spectators wait for the first water swelling down the open part of the aqueduct.
- - Opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct (1913, silent film). The actual silent newsreel of Mulholland opening the aqueduct: "There it is. Take it."
- - Cyclopedia of applied electricity - a general reference work on direct-current generator…. Identifier: cyclopediaofappl05amer (find matches) Title: Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, al...
- - Northward view of the United States Navy dirigible USS Shenandoah over Long Beach, ca.1920. Los Angeles, 1924. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Eddie August Schneider on August 18, 1930 in Los Angeles, California (600 dpi, 100 quali…. Los Angeles, 1930. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - The Union Stock Yards (1933). The industrial LA that fed the growing city.
- - Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica, 1930s (Boeing Classics). On Nov. 30, 1928, Douglas incorporated his business as the Douglas Aircraft Co. Inc. and moved to the completed building in Santa Monica in 1929. In its new facilities, the Douglas Aircraft Co. continued to make observation biplanes and built its first twin-engine aircraft, the T2D-1 torpedo bomber. It also produced a small commercial amphibian, the Sinbad that led to the successful military Dolphin; the famous Douglas Commercial series aircraft DC-1, DC-2, DC-3; the DC-5 and the B-18 Bolo bomber.
- - Laguna Beach home movies, 1930s. Beach life south of LA, captured on home-movie film.
- - TerminalIslandDrillingProduction1940s. Terminal Island drilling-production operations in the 1940s.
- - Inside the Douglas Aircraft factory, Santa Monica (1941). Santa Monica Douglas Factory (1941) Click to subscribe!
- - Donald Douglas inspects the Santa Monica plant (1941). Los Angeles, 1941.
- - Franklin D. Roosevelt and Culbert L. Olson in Long Beach, California - NARA - 195522. Los Angeles, 1942. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Santa Monica & the Douglas Aircraft factory (1940s home movie). Los Angeles, 1943.
- - Mulholland builds the aqueduct (archival). Archival film of the aqueduct project.
- - Catalina Adobe Side. This is a photo of a place or building that is listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in the United States. Its reference number is.
- - Catalina Adobe Front. This is a photo of a place or building that is listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in the United States. Its reference number is.
- - Air View, Famous Signal Hill, Signal Hill, Calif. File name: 06_10_010222 Title: Air View, Famous Signal Hill, Signal Hill, Calif. Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Genre: Postcards Notes: Title from item.
- - Freight landing at 22nd Street, Long Beach, California. - NARA - 295484. Los Angeles, 2011. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - The aqueduct opens - Mulholland speaks (1913). "There it is. Take it.", the actual opening-day footage.
- - How oil was drilled in 1890. The drilling that made early LA fortunes.
- - Building the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1907–1913 (film). Construction footage of the aqueduct across the desert.
