This is a photograph from the Huntington Digital Archive that I stumbled across while I was working on a recent draft for a paper about the long-term coastal histories of California. I was searching for images of Oceanside, California, which was one of the case studies mentioned in the draft, and I found this one.

It’s from the 1880s. It’s part of a small collection of photographs that someone put together after a trip through parts of Southern California.