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#951

Long #: 40.1-951-BLP
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.75"
Date: c. 1895
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Lovers Point, showing early bathhouse, Culp Brothers cyclery & hot water baths sign, people on beach and wooden pier, small boats, Hopkins Seaside Lab (early Hopkins Marine Station), Gosbey baggage transfer sign on water storage. "Food Fun" captioned under photo.
There is a second photo beneath this one (951a).
#952

Long #: 40.1-952-BPL
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.75"
Date: August 16, c. 1885
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General

Two bathhouses at Lovers Point with people in street clothing on porches & on beach. "C.W.J. Johnson, Monterey" on mount. Arched mask.
Mounting board warped.

#953

Long #: 40.1-953-BPL
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.75"
Date: July 18, 1883
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Two bathhouses at Lovers Point with people in street clothing on porches & on beach. "C.W.J. Johnson photo, Monterey" on mount. Three boys with boater hats in right foreground.
Mounting board warped.
#954

Long #: 40.1-954-PBL
Photo size: 4.75" x 8.25
Date: August 29, 1885
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Bathhouse at Lovers Point with people in street clothing on porches & on beach. "C.W.J. Johnson photo, Monterey" on mount. Horse in background.
Stain at top of photo.

#955

Long #: 40.1-955-BPL
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.75"
Date: c. 1895
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Lovers Point, showing early bathhouses, people
on beach and wooden pier, bathers in bathing suits in water. Also shows dwellings along Oceanview Boulevard, including tent marked "Dewey." Magnolia Lodge visible at left of photo, foot of Forest Avenue with peek of Carrie Roe house. Flag flies at foot of 16th Street. C.W.J. Johnson photo.
There is a second photo beneath this one.

#956

Long #: 40.1-956-PBL
Photo size: 4.75" x 8"
Date: July 25, 1885
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Bathhouses at Lovers Point with people in street clothing on porches & on beach. Bathers in bathing costumes up to ankles in water. "C.W.J. Johnson photo, Monterey" on mount. "Annie" captioned. Boys sit on rocks at right. Also shows houses & tent along Oceanview Blvd.

#957

Long #: 40.1-957-PBL
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.25
Date: c. 1885
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Two bathhouses at Lovers Point with people in street clothing on porches & on beach. Young men mug for camera at right. Arched mask. C.W.J. Johnson photo.
Unmounted photo has 1" piece missing at bottom.

#958

Long #: 40.1-958-PBL
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.25
Date: c. 1885
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Two bathhouses at Lovers Point with people in street clothing on porches & on beach. Boat at left in midground. Houses & tent along Oceanview Blvd. in background. Arched mask. C.W.J. Johnson photo.

#959

Long #: 40.1-959-LB
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.75"
Date: c. 1890
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Lovers Point looking from end towards Oceanview Blvd. (showing houses), across water. Two bathhouses, foot of Forest Ave.

#960

Long #: 40.1-960-LBP
Photo size: 4.75" x 7.75
Date: 1884
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General

Unpaved Oceanview Blvd. at 3rd Street (showing small rocky hill area now called Andy Jacobsen Park), looking towards Lovers Point. Two-story house at left is Winston house (torn down). Arched mask. Captioned, "E.E. Pomeroy, Pacific Grove 1884." Also shows rough fencing along future path of railroad tracks and rocky shoreline. C.W.J. Johnson photo.
Foxing on photo.

#961

Long #: 40.2-961-L
Photo size: 4.5" x 7.5"
Date: c. 1881
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General

Bird Rock outcropping off of coastline near Hopkins Marine Station (China Point). Fiske was the photographer of Yosemite.
#962

Long #: 40.2-962-LBP
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c.1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Concrete pier at Lovers Point with surf pounding and man on pier.

#963

Long #: 40.2-963-BL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c.1900
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
From left: Japanese Tea House, Lookout, concrete pier at Lovers Point with surf pounding on pier.
#964

Long #: 40.2-964-LB
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c.1935
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
"Plowing thru the water at Pacific Grove Beach. #26." Shoreline near Lovers Point, from across water with boat and wake in center. Homes along Oceanview Blvd. from about 14th Street to Fountain Avenue. Cars parked along street.

#965

Long #: 40.2-965-BPL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Pleasure boat "Sea-Bird" with passengers in bay along Oceanview Blvd. near Greenwood Park. Houses along shoreline visible.
#966

Long #: 40.2-966-BPL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1900
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Japanese Tea Garden at Lovers Point with one woman and two men standing near entry pavilion. Postcard published by photographer C.K. Tuttle.

#967

Long #: 40.2-967-LB
Photo size: 4" x 5"`
Date: c. 1900
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Japanese Tea Garden and Lovers Point from across bathing cove. Children playing on beach in foreground. To left of Tea Garden is square entry pavilion, and part of Bathhouse Smith's house. Photo 138.
#968

Long #: 40.2-968-PBL
Photo size: 2.5" x 1.75"
Date: c. 1895
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Bathing beach at Lovers Point with two early bathhouses (called "lookouts" on caption on back of original photo). Houses along Oceanview in background. Small wooden pier and boats "Bessie" and "Nellie" in foreground.

#969

Long #: 40.2-969-LB
Photo size: 3" x 4"
Date: May 1908
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General

End of Lovers Point from shore across water, showing rocky outcrops, The Lookout, and part of the Japanese Tea House.
#970

Long #: 40.2-970-PL
Photo size: 4" x 2.5"
Date: 1905
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Frances Guild Cross stands on rocks at Lovers Point with fishing pole.

#971

Long #: 40.3-971-LB
Photo size: 3" x 4"
Date: May 1908
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Rocks along shoreline with end of Lovers Point in background.
#972

Long #: 40.3-972-PBL
Photo size: 3" x 5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Girl in bathing cap & suit stands in foreground. Lovers Point and Japanese Tea House in background.

#974

Long #: 40.3-974-LB
Photo size: 2-7/8" x 4-5/8"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Lovers Point, including bathhouse, pier, boats, Japanese Tea House, Bathhouse Smith's barn-like house, and Lookout. Southern Pacific Railroad tracks in foreground.
#976

Long #: 40.3-976-BL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
"783-Japanese Tea Garden, Pacific Grove, California." Postcard published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco. Shows Japanese Tea House from end of Lovers Point.

#977

Long #: 40.3-977-BL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Hand-colored postcard published by Culp Bros. "Surf Scene, Pacific Grove, Cal." Shows Japanese Tea House and surf pounding on pier's breakwater.
#978

Long #: 40.3-978-PL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1915
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Well-dressed crowd amongst rocks at end of Lovers Point.

#979

Long #: 40.3-979-PL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Looking down concrete pier at Lovers Point with surf pounding at breakwater. Woman & two children walking on pier. Wood planks on ground & construction on steps.
#980

Long #: 40.3-980-BL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1915
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Looking in from end of Lovers Point (from right): boulders near end of point, benches, train station, Hopkins Marine Station and water tower, Bathhouse Smith's barn-like house, merry-go-round, photographer's studio.

#981

Long #: 40.4-981-PB
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: July 1913
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Band concert outside of bathhouse. Shows band director, Mr. Camillo, and band members John Orchard, Arthur Gates, Fred Cope, and Roy Wright. Crowd in street clothing sits on beach.
#982

Long #: 40.4-982-PB
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: August 6, 1911
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
"Big Hat Show on Beach, Pacific Grove." Band concert outside of bathhouse. Crowd in street clothing sits on beach.

#983

Long #: 40.4-983-PB
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: August 25, 1912
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Band concert outside of bathhouse. Crowd in street clothing sits on beach.
#984

Long #: 40.4-984-PBL
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: 1935
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Lovers Point from beach looking towards swimming pool with large crowd surrounding pool. Thought to be opening of pool. Stone wall was a WPA project. #23.

#985

Long #: 40.4-985-PB
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: September 1, 1912
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Band concert outside of bathhouse. Crowd in street clothing sits on beach.
#986

Long #: 40.4-986-BL
Photo size: 4" x 6.5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Tracks near Lovers Point leading to Southern Pacific train station, showing train on track and switches. At right is Work's Pacific Grove Lumber Yard.

#987

Long #: 40.4-987-LPB
Photo size: 4.25" x 6.5
Date: c. 1880
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Copy photo of C.W.J. Johnson stereo card. Shows path leading down 16th Street to Lovers Point bathhouse. People in bathing costumes on beach.
#988

Long #: 40.4-988-LBP
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1915
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
The Del Monte Express' steam engine approaches Lovers Point on way to the Pacific Grove depot. The railroad right-of-way has become today's Recreation Trail. Photo was taken from rocky end of Lovers Point. Houses along Oceanview Blvd. also visible. C.B. Clark photo.

#989

Long #: 40.4-989-LB
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1915
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Tree-lined curve of Oceanview Blvd. approaching Lovers Point. Also shows Seven Gables.
#990

Long #: 40.4-990-BLP
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1915
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Southern Pacific train tracks near Lovers Point. Lanterns are strung above for Feast of Lanterns.

#991

Long #: 40.5-991-B
Photo size: 3.5" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Pacific Grove train depot, showing tracks, building carts, carriages, rolling stock, horse, and nearby house.

#992

Long #: 40.5-992-BL
Photo size: 5" x 4"
Date: May 1904
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Side view of steam engine #1438 of the Del Monte Express on track near Pacific Grove.
#993

Long #: 40.5-993-BL
Photo size: 4" x 5"
Date: May 1904
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
3/4 view of steam engine #1438 of the Del Monte Express and rolling stock on track at Pacific Grove with station at left.

#994

Long #: 40.5-994-LB
Photo size: 4.5" x 7.5"
Date: c. 1880
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View from rocks on coast of Pacific Grove, with Lovers Point in background. Also has glimpses of houses through trees. Arched mask.
#995

Long #: 40.5-995-LB
Photo size: 4.5" x 6.25"
Date: August 13, 1930
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General

View from rocks on coast of Pacific Grove, with Lovers Point in background. Buildings on the Point include: the Bathhouse, Glass Bottom Boat launch on pier, and William ""Bathhouse" Smith's barn-like house. House along Oceanview (Seven Gables) also visible. Lewis Josselyn photo.

#996

Long #: 40.5-996-LB
Photo size: 4.25" x 6.25"
Date: c. 1895
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View from rocks on Monterey Bay coast, showing surf. Point of land in background, stretches of fencing on land.
#997

Long #: 40.5-997-LB
Photo size: 3" x 5.5"
Date: c. 1930
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View across bathing cove at Lovers Point, looking at pier, "Bathhouse" Smith's barn-like house, the Lookout, and other buildings.

#998

Long #: 40.5-998-LB
Photo size: 3" x 4"
Date: May 1908
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View from Oceanview Blvd. looking across Southern Pacific train tracks (site of present-day Recreation Trail) towards Lovers Point. Shows rocky shoreline, fencing, telephone poles, Hopkins Seaside Lab (aka Hopkins Marine Station), "Bathhouse" Smith's house, and the Lookout.
Condition: Photo has red ink notation.
#999

Long #: 40.5-999-L
Photo size: 8" x 10"
Date: c. 1950
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View of Monterey Bay from Pacific Grove coastline near Berwick Park (between Lovers Point and Hopkins Marine Station at China Point). According to Clark's Monterey County Place Names, the park's name was changed from Cypress Park to Berwick in 1924 to honor Edward Berwick, who designed the park. Tracks of Southern Pacific train line at bottom right corner, and Cypress at right. Rey Ruppel photo.

#1000

Long #: 40.5-1000-L
Photo size: 8" x 10"
Date: c. 1950
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View of Monterey Bay from Pacific Grove coastline at Berwick Park (between Lovers Point and Hopkins Marine Station at China Point). According to Clark's Monterey County Place Names, the park's name was changed from Cypress Park to Berwick in 1924 to honor Edward Berwick, who designed the park. Oceanview Blvd. in foreground, shrubbery & Cypress tree in midground. Rey Ruppel photo.
#1001

Long #: 40.5-1001-L
Photo size: 8" x 10"
Date: c. 1950
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
View of Monterey Bay from Pacific Grove coastline from Berwick Park (between Lovers Point and Hopkins Marine Station at China Point). According to Clark's Monterey County Place Names, the park's name was changed from Cypress Park to Berwick in 1924 to honor Edward Berwick, who designed the park. Cypress at center, and Lovers Point in background. Rey Ruppel photo.

#1003

Long #: 41.2-1003-LB
Photo size: 7" x 5"
Date: c.1910
Place: Pacific Grove
Binder: General
Lovers Point, view from end of Point looking towards Oceanview Blvd. Shows rock formation in foreground, pier in midground, and trees and houses along Oceanview Blvd. at foot of Grand and Forest avenues.

There are more Lovers Point photographs on the Museum's Tuttle Collection Lovers Point page.


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