99 Steps and Tents on Santa Monica Beach

A view southeast along the Palisades Bluffs toward the Arcadia Hotel and pier, taken before the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks were laid in the early 1890s along the beach to the Long Wharf. Photograph inscribed: "View South From 99 Steps." Photograph inscribed (handwritten): "1880's, Foot of Arizona Ave.; Tom Vandergrift."