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Title The Beach Road
Catalog Number DM-1
Object Name Print, Photographic
Description Travelers on the 'Beach Road." ca. 1907. From the shadow pattern this is probably a mid-late day on a winter afternoon. Not a road per se, but simply the compacted sand between high and low tides. Until the early 1920s, this was the only relatively open and publicly accessible route across much of the length of Rancho Malibu. However, between aproximately 1910-1920, bitter court battles between the Rindges and nearby settlers frequently interrupted public access to even this pathway.
We have often debated whether a couple of the animals about half way back in this photo could be camels. That's possible, but unfortunately any accompanying description of this scene has been lost, and the photo is too low resolution to enlarge it enough to make a positive identificatio.
Photographer unk
Copyright none
Search Terms Rancho Malibu
Beach Road