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Elevated View of Santa Monica Beach Cottages and Rail Line (1927)

A high-angle elevated panorama of the Santa Monica shoreline showing railroad tracks, the coast road, and rows of dark wooden beach cottages on the sand. — Elevated View of Santa Monica Beach Cottages and Rail Line (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Looking down the sweeping curve of the Santa Monica coastline in 1927, Donald A. Hall Sr. recorded early coastal settlement patterns. Dark wooden beach cottages and bathhouses sit directly on the sand between coastal railway tracks and the breaking Pacific surf.