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Portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885

Description

Photographic portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885. The class is shown in a composite shot. On the bottom, the class poses in four rows outside the high school's clapboarded side. On the top, a distant shot of the entire school is shown on Poundcake hill. The school is two stories tall with a small clock tower extending from the center of its roof. Below, the class is seated in the two front rows, the frontmost boys seated on the ground, while the girls behind them appear to be seated on chairs. The rest stand.
The names from left to right are; First Row: Fred Sterns, and unidentified student, George A. Fitch, Joe Ketchum, Paul Frebe, and a second unidentified student. Second Row: Bessie Harris, Babel Otis, Edith Field, Mercy Abbot, Mamie Norton, Hattie Boquest, and Lillian Thurston. Third Row: Warran Hopperstead, an unidentified student, Lavis LaBarea, T. Orella, Proffessor Bram, Otto Weid, Fred Martin, Harry Stausberry. Back row: [?] Leonis, Willie Gard, Leon Levy, an unidentified student, Vincent Guercio and Norman Martin.

Title:

Portrait of Los Angeles High School's graduating class on Poundcake Hill, 1885

Record ID:

chs-m13176

Names & Dates

Created:

1885

Creator:

[photographer] Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Schools , Students , Stearns, Fred , Fitch, George , Ketchum, Joe , Freeby, Paul , Harris, Bessie , Otis, Mabel , Field, Edith , Abbott, Mercy , Norton, Marmie , Boquest, Hattie , Thurston, Lillian , Hofferstead, Warren , LaBarca, Louis , Orella, F. , Bray, Professor , Weid, Otto , Martin, Fred , Stansbury, Harry , Leonis , Gard, Willie , Levy, Leon , Guerico, Vincent , Martin, Norman , Los Angeles High School , [file heading] Portraits -- Group -- School , educational facilities

Coverage:

1885

Place:

[buildings] Los Angeles High School
[natural features] Poundcake Hill
[cities] Los Angeles
[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] Title Insurance and Trust / C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
[project] USC

Physical

Type:

images

Format:

transparencies
photographic prints
2 photographs : transparency, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
photographs

Access

Rights:

California Historical Society

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

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Identifiers

Record ID:

chs-m13176

Source:

[record id] USC-1-1-1-13329
[accession no] 8530
[call no] CHS-8530
[microfiche no] 1-18-