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Swimmers in Pacific Surf and Santa Monica Palisades (1927)

A high-angle view looking over rolling ocean waves with swimmers in the surf along the wide sandy beach of Santa Monica, with coastal palisades in the background. — Swimmers in Pacific Surf and Santa Monica Palisades (1927) · Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Captured from an elevated coastal vantage point in 1927, Donald A. Hall Sr. documented beachgoers and swimmers enjoying the Pacific surf along the wide sands of Santa Monica, framed by the distant coastal bluffs.