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Los Angeles Athletic Club Photograph Collection: Finding Aid
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Box 1

Copy prints

Arrangement

The prints are listed below in the following subseries:
  • Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club
  • Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club and Biltmore Hotel
  • Riviera Country Club
  • Pacific Country Club
 

Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club, 1929-1932

Items 1-16

Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club, 1930-1931

Scope and Content Note

Fifteen photographs of the beach area of the Santa Monica Athletic Club and 1 interior view of the Deauville Club dining room, in Santa Monica, California. The images of the beach-goers depict leisure activities including beach volleyball (with the Deauville Club building in the background), sunbathing, children playing in the sand, and a card game. Eight of the photographs are close-up shots of young women in bathing suits sitting on the sand.
Handwritten labels on the negative envelopes list various dates for the images between August 1930-June 1931. The Deauville dining room image (Item 1) is undated.
Items 74-83

Santa Monica Athletic Club, 1929-1931

Scope and Content Note

Ten photographs of the Santa Monica Athletic Club dating from 1929 to 1931 Includes three exterior images of the beach and ocean; and a set of images from 1929 documenting the interiors of the Club including the front desk and interior office; lounge; open-air dining room; beach grill, and ladies lounge.
Date based on information provided by the donor.
Items 85-98

Bathing Suit Fashion Show, March 8, 1932

Scope and Content Note

Fourteen images of young women posing, indoors, in one- and two-piece bathing suits during a fashion show at the Santa Monica Athletic Club in 1932; including two images of three-year-old Shirley Temple (Items 97-98).
Date based on information provided by the donor.
 

Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club and Biltmore Hotel, 1931-1941

Items 17-42

Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club

Scope and Content Note

Sixteen photographs consisting of close-up portraits of individuals on the beach of the Sand and Surf Club in Hermosa Beach, California. Subjects include young and old individuals including children and the elderly, both in swimsuits and more formal clothing, sitting in the sand.
Handwritten labels on the negative envelopes list various dates for the images in 1931.
Items 43-55

Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club and Biltmore Hotel

Scope and Content Note

Thirteen photographs of the Sand and Surf Club in Hermosa Beach, California. Includes two exterior views of the building, as seen from the ocean (with one of the building as the Hermosa Biltmore Hotel in 1941 and the other as the Sand and Surf Club); and ten interior views, with six of lounge and lobby areas, two of the dining room, one of a bar counter, and two of the indoor pool.
Handwritten labels on the negative envelopes incorrectly list items as the "Hermosa Biltmore, May 1941".
Item 84

Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club

Scope and Content Note

One photograph of the indoor swimming pool in the Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club.
Items 56-65

Riviera Country Club, December 16, 1928

Scope and Content Note

Ten photographs of the Riviera Country Club and golf course in Pacific Palisades, California, in 1928, one year after the opening of the facility. Includes exterior and landscape views of the clubhouse, golf course, putting green, and undeveloped hillsides; and interior views of "The French Room" lounge and a guest sleeping room.
Date based on information provided by the donor.
Items 66-73

Pacific Country Club, August 7, 1930

Scope and Content Note

Eight photographs of the Pacific Country Club in Long Beach, California. Includes five exterior views of the Clubhouse; three views of sunbathers and umbrellas on the beach; and one view of swimmers in the ocean as seen from the patio grill.
Date based on information provided by the donor.
Box 2

Negatives

Physical Description: 1 box

Access Information

The negatives have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.

Scope and Content Note

Safety film negatives corresponding to copy prints in two sizes 3.75 x 5 in. (Items 1-43, 47, 49-50, 53, 55, 97-98) and 8 x 10 in. (Items 44-46, 48, 51-52, 54, 56-96)
 

Unidentified and unprinted negatives and film

Box 3

Unidentified and unprinted negatives

Physical Description: approximately 70 negatives in 1 box

Access Information

The negatives have been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for viewing negatives must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.

Scope and Content Note

This box contains approximately 70 nitrate 3.75 x 5 in. film negatives of the Hermosa Beach Sand and Surf Club and the Santa Monica Athletic Club that are either damaged or do not have corresponding copy prints.
Box 4

16 mm copy film

Physical Description: 1 reel of 16 mm film in 1 box

Access Information

The film has been placed in cold storage for preservation. Arrangements for viewing the film must be made in advance with the Curator of Photographs.

Scope and Content Note

This box contains a reel of 16 mm copy film marked "Jess Willard & strong man LAAC roof 1933."