Name/Title
"No. 222. Under the Wharf at Santa Monica, Cal."Entry/Object ID
2010.438.1.15Description
"No. 222. Under the Wharf at Santa Monica, Cal.," originally photographed by Alexander C. Varela, Los Angeles, ca. 1878 and republished by Isaiah W. Taber, San Francisco, ca. early 1880s. The view is from the level of the water at the shoreline and looks out on the curved wooden structure toward the depot at the end, from which ships unloaded cargo. The wharf was erected in 1875 by the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad Company, of which F. P. F. Temple was first president and then treasurer and was bought two years later by the Southern Pacific Railroad, which later razed it. Varela moved to San Jose and worked as a photographer there in 1880, but evidently sold his negatives to Taber before returning to Washington, D. C., where he worked in the federal government system. With slight mount curvature, some soiling and edge rubbing, and abrasions at the caption and lower left, which don't materially affect the image, the overall condition is good.Lexicon
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Stereoscopic Photographs