California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Los Angeles County Court House and Jail on Poundcake Hill, ca.1895

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Los Angeles County Court House and Jail on Poundcake Hill, ca.1895

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Photograph of exterior Los Angeles County Court House and Jail on Poundcake Hill, ca.1895. Located on the south side of Temple Street between Broadway and Spring Street, on Poundcake Hill. Broad stairs approach the building from the corner. A stone retaining wall lines the sidewalk on the Court House side. About 10 horse-drawn carriages are parked on the street in front of the building. Utility poles and lines are visible. A flag flies from the uppermost clock tower of the building.

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Title Los Angeles County Court House and Jail on Poundcake Hill, ca.1895

Subject court houses (adlf), Los Angeles -- Architecture -- Public Buildings -- County Court House (file heading), Los Angeles County Court House (subject), Public buildings (file heading), Public buildings (lcsh), Spring Street (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Broadway and Spring Street at Temple Street (roadway), California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1895

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, transparency, b&w ; 20 x 25 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1895

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1866

Identifier 273 (accession number), CHS-273 (call number), CHS-273 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2719 (legacy record id), chs-m1866 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-1918 (legacy record id), 1-9-4 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2719

Unique identifier UC116907

Legacy Identifier CHS-273.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.2 in × 13.1 in at 300dpi
43.6 cm × 33.3 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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